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Hey, could I drop trou and cheese someone?

Only on an aspie board would a topic about the moon turn into a chat about cheese...

I don't like butter on my sandwiches. Or my toast.
People think that's weird.
It's not though, is it?

That pic's the wrong color - everyone knows it's green cheese!

As to cosmological facts:
- Analysis of lunar soil has shown that it most probably originated in what is now the Pacific seabed, when a collision with something the size of Mars tore a big ol' chunk out of primordial Earth, about three billion years ago or so.

- The idea of the Moon being a captured asteroid fails on two counts. 1) Earth's gravity isn't strong enough to capture something that massive; and 2) there's nothing in space to "erode" it into its current shape. Rather, after assuming orbit, it must have still been hot (and semiliquid) enough to have been drawn into a spheroid under its own gravity.

- The most probable cause of the Asteroid "Belt" is that during the formation of the planets, the force of Jupiter's gravity well was so great, it disrupted the formation of anything planet-sized next orbit in (good thing for Saturn that Bode's Law placed its whorl well outside Jupiter's influence!). The rocks and dust are there because the orbit exists (again, by Bode's Law), and something's going to occupy it - it just never got a decent chance to coalesce.

- If it's as big as Mars, it seems a little pedantic to insist on calling it an "asteroid" rather than a "rogue planet"...

chesse gromit?

This goes to show that NASA lied to us about the moon.