[meteorite-list] Moon rock?
From: leandro saracino <leandro.saracino_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 02:46:01 +0200 Message-ID: <463D2549.2000200_at_oacl.net> Hi Graham and all, as far as I can remember, "false color" pictures of the Moon have been used as a bi-dimensional visual tool for lunar geochemistry since the '60s, by Ewin Withaker, Dale Cruickshank and other folks at the famous Lunar and Planetary Lab in Tucson. They used to sandwich negative IR plates and positive UV plates (or the reverse, maybe) of the Moon and the final B/W product was a stunning picture that revealed the compositional provinces of variuos areas of our satellite. Many years later the same concept has been extended to the remote sensing by orbiting or fly-bying space probes (Clementine, Galileo), getting a far better color discrimination of the lunar chemical provinces. The use of modern electronic equipment has put this technique in the range of amateur astronomers as well, with many beautiful results already published in the net. A nice web page is given by Filipe Alves (sorry, I didn't keep its URL, but you should be able to find it anyway). That's definitely a compositional bulk effect, thus, but one cannot exclude in principle a small contribution of meteoritic origin to the spectral reflectance of the lunar surface (something like that has been advocated also for the martian surface some time ago, if I remember correctly). Hope this brief account will help. Leandro Osservatorio Astronomico Colle Leone IMCA #2689 >Message: 4 >Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 00:39:56 +0100 >From: ensoramanda <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com> >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Moon rock? >To: Stefan Brandes <brandes at gmx.at>, > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >Message-ID: <463D15CC.6010704 at ntlworld.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Thanks Stephan...compares well to his shot...will give him the link. > >Seems it is related to chemical makeup of the moon itself then and not >influenced by the continuous rain of nickel iron as meteorites. >He thought there may be a connection. > >Graham > >Stefan Brandes wrote: > > > >>How about this: >> >>http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060907.html >> >>Stefan >> >>______________________________________________ >>Meteorite-list mailing list >>Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >>http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> >> >> > > > > > Received on Sat 05 May 2007 08:46:01 PM PDT |
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