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by shagie
476 days ago
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That is correct. The NASA page link (now 404) has a bit more on the orbits and their history. https://web.archive.org/web/20210307002503/https://science.n... And they're very lumpy. > The mascons' gravitational anomaly is so great—half a percent—that it actually would be measurable to astronauts on the lunar surface. "If you were standing at the edge of one of the maria, a plumb bob would hang about a third of a degree off vertical, pointing toward the mascon," Konopliv says. Moreover, an astronaut in full spacesuit and life-support gear whose lunar weight was exactly 50 pounds at the edge of the mascon would weigh 50 pounds and 4 ounces when standing in the mascon's center. |
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