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Einstein's Alcove
If the moon has loads of crators, who come we weren't hit?
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<blockquote data-quote="RCP" data-source="post: 279622" data-attributes="member: 186733"><p>The Earth was well and truly pebbled by asteroids and meteorites in its distant path and is still bombarded on a daily basis. What stops high velocity pebbles and slightly bigger objects from causing damage nowadays is the thing above us called the atmosphere, which I am led to believe doesn't drift away due to the gravity exerted by the Earths magnetic core.</p><p></p><p>The moon does not have an atmosphere so continues to be bombarded by spacial rubble.</p><p></p><p>This is also a problem to satellites, and a technical problem to the guys on the ground, who frequently have to rotate the satellites from time to time in order to attempt to protect them from these fast moving particles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RCP, post: 279622, member: 186733"] The Earth was well and truly pebbled by asteroids and meteorites in its distant path and is still bombarded on a daily basis. What stops high velocity pebbles and slightly bigger objects from causing damage nowadays is the thing above us called the atmosphere, which I am led to believe doesn't drift away due to the gravity exerted by the Earths magnetic core. The moon does not have an atmosphere so continues to be bombarded by spacial rubble. This is also a problem to satellites, and a technical problem to the guys on the ground, who frequently have to rotate the satellites from time to time in order to attempt to protect them from these fast moving particles. [/QUOTE]
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