{"id":7241,"date":"2014-04-06T21:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2014-04-06T21:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:05:46","slug":"science-misc-moon-mantle-puzzles-space-colonizing-diversity-sky-falls-more-often-deflating-the-inflation-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7241","title":{"rendered":"Science misc: Moon mantle puzzles, Space colonizing diversity, Sky falls more often, Deflating the inflation model"},"content":{"rendered":"

A selection of science related links of intrest that I’ve come across recently:<\/p>\n

The Moon’s structure and composition are not as well understood as one might think :\u00a0The Moon\u2019s Mantle Muddle: Maybe we\u2019ve been looking for the wrong minerals, or maybe our models are wrong – Daily Planet\/Air & Space Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

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How many people do you need in your exoplanet colonization caravan to insure a healthy diversity of genes?\u00a0How Many People Does It Take to Colonize Another Star System? – Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/p>\n

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A nuclear detection sensor system<\/a> detects more asteroids hitting the earth than thought:\u00a0Blast Sensors Detect More Asteroid Strikes Than Expected – NBC News.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose is skeptical that the recent measurements<\/a> of variations in the cosmic radiation background necessarily validate the Inflation Model<\/a> as the explanation of the early universe:\u00a0Sir Roger Penrose: Cosmic Inflation Is \u2018Fantasy’ – Science Friday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A selection of science related links of intrest that I’ve come across recently: The Moon’s structure and composition are not as well understood as one might think :\u00a0The Moon\u2019s Mantle Muddle: Maybe we\u2019ve been looking for the wrong minerals, or maybe our models are wrong – Daily Planet\/Air & Space Magazine === How many people … Continue reading Science misc: Moon mantle puzzles, Space colonizing diversity, Sky falls more often, Deflating the inflation model<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,9,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-science-and-technology","category-space-settlement","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1SN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1880,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1880","url_meta":{"origin":7241,"position":0},"title":"The mystery of the Moon’s missing mantle ejecta","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Paul Spudis explains that the Apollo lunar samples, seismic station measurements, and other data have not solved some fundamental issues regarding the Moon's crust, mantle, and impact craters: Thin Crust Moon - The Once and Future Moon.","rel":"","context":"In "Space Science"","block_context":{"text":"Space Science","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2550,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2550","url_meta":{"origin":7241,"position":1},"title":"GRAIL spacecraft expose origin of lunar mass concentrations","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A release from NASA: NASA's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon that affects the operations of lunar-orbiting spacecraft. 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