[meteorite-list] [2] trips to the Moon (Moon bases and meteoriterecovery)

[MexicoDoug]

Never mind - the light bulb on my shoulders and brightened up. I said 
we would find it written in stone and you said no Trojans were known. 
You meant that there is no guarantee we'll find anything there without 
bias, right, but my premise assumes that material is there.

Yup, but as missions go, I think it is just about the best risk out 
there, and certainly among the cheapest. Besides, a mission there could 
serve a dual purpose to evaluate the region for colonization, staging 
or to otherwise utilize its unique attributes. After 3.5 billion years 
I figure no matter how much the cometary brooms and things have whisked 
it out, there is bound to be plenty of dirt behind the refrigerator.

Kindest wishes and thanks
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
To: damoclid at yahoo.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 11:34 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] trips to the Moon (Moon bases and 
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Hi Richard, 
 
I think I missed more than that - so what did you mean in the original 
post? That a mission there would be a good idea to make new 
discoveries? I still don't get it, then, and am very interested in what 
you say. 
 
Kindest wishes 
Doug 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com> 
To: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>; 
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> 
Sent: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 10:59 pm 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] trips to the Moon (Moon bases and 
meteoriterecovery) 
 
Doug, I think you missed a key word in my post, "... known ...". 
 
Cheers 
 
  
-- 
Richard Kowalski 
Full Moon Photography 
IMCA #1081 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com> 
To: damoclid at yahoo.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com 
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 4:30 PM 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] trips to the Moon (Moon bases and 
meteoriterecovery) 
 
Richard K says: 
 
"There are no known Earth Trojans." 
 
Hi Richard, 
 
Come on ol' friend, even 2500 years ago Anaxagoras deduced: 
 
"Under the stars are the Sun and Moon, and also certain bodies which 
revolve 
with them, but are invisible to us." 
 
and we've observed enough meteorites to vindicate him! 
 
The "invisible" he was talking about refers to them being too small to 
have 
enough light to reflect to be seen. What is the median threshold 
resolution we 
are talking about nowadays (in mass or diameter) at that distance? 
 
Perhaps the points are not a pocket full of horses, but Chincoteague 
Ponies, 
some used, would be a coupe. Regardless, towing an asteroid back to 
earth wasn't 
what I had in mind at all. Look, we've even sent Stardust to play 
tennis with 
comets, in hope of getting some micron sized particles, while ignoring 
the 
voluminous information guaranteed to be on the shelves of these 
libration 
libraries, not in mass, but in rubble and dust, a page at a time and 
conveniently located. 
 
Best wishes 
Doug 
 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com> 
To: meteorite list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> 
Sent: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 5:59 pm 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] trips to the Moon (Moon bases and 
meteoriterecovery) 
 
  
 
________________________________ 
From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com> 
To: etmeteorites at hotmail.com; Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com 
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 2:35 PM 
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] trips to the Moon (Moon bases and 
meteoriterecovery) 
 
 
You want to go the the nearer Lagrangian Points in plain space between 
the Earth 
and Moon. That is where the most fascinating stuff is to be found, 
written in 
unaltered stone the genesis of the Moon and plenty more debris to keep 
scientists and collectors busy and overworked for the nex 10,000 years! 
 
 
There are no known Earth Trojans. 
 
-- 
Richard Kowalski 
Full Moon Photography 
IMCA #1081 
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