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

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:02:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1309320145.62266.YahooMailNeo_at_web113616.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Sorry if I'm being obtuse.

My terse comment that there are no known earth trojans means simply that. We know of no Earth Trojans at L4 or L5.
I simply can't say if there is or isn't anything there.

Can't say that either is a good place to find lunar material simply because we haven't found a single Trojan. As for a mission to investigate the regions? Not really that interesting to me. Obviously I'm much more excited by the OSIRIS-REx sample return mission to 1999 RQ36 later this decade.???? (Plug for LPL & UA)


1999 RQ36 is a carbonaceous Potentially Hazardous Asteroid with a diameter of about 350 meters in diameter that has a 1 in 1,800 chance of earth imapct in 2182. I find that mission much more tantalizing than exploring the Lagrangian points to do some street sweeping.

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
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From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] trips to the Moon (Moon bases and meteoriterecovery)
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
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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
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From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug at aim.com>
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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)
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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.
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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
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