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PREVIEW: MOON: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re the NASA discovery that seismometers left on the moon during the Apollo landings have recorded tens of thousands more moonquakes than previously believed. Remembering the moon is a reconstructed

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW: MOON: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re the NASA discovery that seismometers left on the moon during the Apollo landings have recorded tens of thousands more moonquakes than previously believed. Remembering the moon is a reconstructed body from a planetary collision with Earth. More later.

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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:06.0

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

0:10.7

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:14.0

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.

0:25.6

Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.

0:28.0

P and Dau Ferris, there is another way.

0:30.3

This is John Batcheter, conversation with my good colleague Bob Zimmerman behind the black about the revelation that seismometers left on the moon during the Apollo era, this is the 1960s, early 70s, recorded tens of

0:45.9

thousands of more moonquakes than were known before. Bob explains why this is significant, remembering that the moon, the theory of the moon

0:57.3

is that it's a reconstructed planet from a collision that happened with Earth once upon a time early on in the formation

1:05.8

of the solar system.

1:08.0

Quakes from inside the moon are a fascination.

1:10.6

Bob Zimmerman, moonquakes. more of this tonight, thank you.

1:14.0

Well, understanding the moon better is the key, but what's interesting about this story is that

1:21.0

it's, we have now discovered 22,000 additional quakes that occurred on the

1:26.7

moon during the Apollo era. These were seismographs that were put on seismometers that were put on the moon during the Apollo missions

1:36.1

and during the period of about five years that they operated, they had detected initially

1:41.1

about 18,000 quakes, 13,000 quakes, I'm sorry.

1:45.0

An astronomer in Japan decided to take, take a look back at that data and going through the data more closely and using modern software techniques,

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