NASA COVER-UP? RE: MOON FLIGHTS FILE: UFO1896 From: snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us Date: 1 Nov 92 19:09:42 GMT Newsgroups: sci.space,alt.conspiracy Subject: NASA Coverup snarfy to NASA Physicists - "YOU'RE ALL BUSTED!" According to conventional theories of science , the Moon (Luna) has only 1/6th of the Earth's gravity. Newton formulated his famous Laws of Universal Gravitation in 1666 which led to this conclusion. This conclusion was based on assumptions that (1) The density and composition of the moon was similar to the earth's, and (2.) This density and composition was fairly uniform throughout the lunar globe.The calculated mass of the moon would not be sufficient to cause very significant density increases as one approached the moon's center of gravity. It has never been disputed , nor do I dispute here that the gravitational pull that one body has upon another depends on the product of the masses of the two bodies divided by the distance between them. These assumptions and observations, taken together , lead one to the conclusion that the moon has "1/6" of the earth's gravitational pull at it's surface. This figure has been accepted for centuries. In a pre-Apollo Astronomy textbook "Exploration of the Universe" by George Abell (Holt ,Reinhart 1966), there is a statement on page 179 that ,given the formula a=G*(M/R^2) where G is the Gravitational Constant it follows that : a(moon)/a(earth) = 1/81.3/(.273)^2 = .165 ( @ 1/6 ) This calculation is apparently based on the observed distance of 2903 miles of the earth's distance from the earth-moon barycenter as that distance is divided into the observed distance to the moon. This calculation yields a distance to the moon of 81.3 times the distance of earth's center to the barycenter, locating this barycenter well inside the earth. Throughout the fifties and sixties , the so called "neutral point" where the gravitational forces of the earth-moon system balance,was given over and over again as being between 22,100 and 25,200 miles from the surface of the moon in the direction of the earth. These figures were presumed to represent logical guesses from trained scientists. However , it is acknowledged in Abell's book that only by observing falling or orbiting bodies in the moon's vicinity could the actual neutral point distance, hence the moon's true gravity , be determined. Using the above neutral point and assumed gravity for their calculations, the U.S. and the Soviet Union began to send space probes to the moon in the late fifties. They met with miserable failure. The Russians were first to launch a successful probe , Luna 1 , on January 2, 1959. It flew to within 4660 miles of the moon and broadcast back information before continuing into deep space. The U.S. made three unsuccessful attempts before achieving a fly-by of 37,000 miles from the surface some months after luna 1 with Pioneer 4. The Russian's Luna 2 became the first space probe to hit the moon and Luna 3 circled the far side of the moon, approached within 4,372 miles, and sent back photos of the far side. Strangely , Russian moon exploration came to a four year stop after these successes. Furthermore the Russians were intensely secretive about the data they collected. The American efforts were almost laughable at first. The Ranger space probes were designed to hard land with seismometers in spherical containers intended to withstand the impacts. Ranger 3 , launched on January 26th 1962 ,missed it's target completely and went into a solar orbit. Ranger 4 hit the moon but did not send back any usefull information. Ranger 5 missed the moon by 450 miles and then the effort was put off for two years while the entire program was re-organized. It was evident that something was wrong with their calculations. Ranger 6, launched on January 30th 1964, allegedly had it's electrical system burn out in flight and no pictures were sent. Subsequent Ranger Probes were more successful . The Russians reactivated their space probes , but their Luna 5, launched on May 9, 1964, crashed at full speed on the moon, when it was intended to make a soft landing. Luna 6 utterly missed the moon , and Luna 7 crashed on the the moon's surface when it's retro rockets supposedly fired too soon. Luna 8 also crashed on the moon, but Luna 9 became the first probe to succesfully soft land. Missions became more successful after this, this possibly attributable to the notion that the Soviets and the Americans had been able to recalculate the neutral point and the correct gravity of the moon from the many failures (and few successes). The strangest thing to come out of the re-analyzing of " observing bodies falling toward and orbiting the moon " was for NASA to come up with a new neutral point between the Earth and the moon. This then becomes the key to a possible "NASA Coverup" . The July 25th , 1969 issue of TIME magazine stated that the neutral point was 43,495 miles from the center of the moon. Werner von Braun stated in the 1969 edition of "History of Rocketry and Space Travel" that the neutral point was 43,495 miles the center of the moon . The pre-Apollo distances were given as 20,000 to 25,000 miles from the center of the moon. NASA , it appears, had re-calculated the neutral point, which would indicate that the moon's gravity is not 1/6th, as Newton had stated. Using the inverse square law to calculate gravitational effects at a given distance ,we derive that the weight of an object at a distance D from the center of a gravitating body ,and Ds equaling the radius of that body , the gravitational effect Wd at that distance = (Ds/D)^2 of the weight on the surface of that body. Therefore, The figure of 43,495 miles from the moon's center for the neutral point given above by Time magazine represents a relative gravitation of the moon compared to the earth of approximately 64% ! SIXTY FOUR PERCENT (!) The problems this figure represents for the allegation that we actually landed and lifted off from the moon using conventional rockets is obvious. NASA physicists..... YOU ARE withholding the truth from the American People. If you want to argue about the merits of my calculations fine,let's flame! You are going to lose. Below is an ascii printout of a GWBasic language computer program I wrote to aid in my calculation process.To those accustomed to mathematical sophistry, it may seem a rather inelegant number cruncher, but it is based on straightforward math right out of one of Beiser's physics texts. For those of you not using DOS machines or not otherwise familiar with how to load and run a GWbasic ascii file program , download this file and remove this text with a word processor. Rename the resulting file with a ".bas" extension , for example:"moongrav.bas". Put the file into the same directory as the GW or IBM Basic interpreter program. At the Dos prompt "C>" Type "GWBASIC moongrav". Hit F2 (RUN) and answer the questions presented. "The Laws of Physics just went out the window!" "and why shouldn't they...their so inconvenient!" -Dialog overheard on "Star Trek-the Next Generation ", Halloween Night, October 31,1992 ------------------------Remove this line and above----------------------- 10 INPUT "Weight of object on earth surface ";Z 20 INPUT "Postulated weight of same object on moon surface ";ZM 30 GMOON=ZM/Z 40 PRINT "Moon Gravity =";GMOON;" Earth gravity" 50 INPUT "Estimated MAXIMUM Neutral Point distance from moon center ";EMAX 60 INPUT "Estimated MINIMUM Neutral Point distance from moon center";EMIN 70 X=4000:XM=1080:MD=238857!:SP=MD-EMAX 80 YE=SP 90 A=X/YE 100 B=A^2 110 WE=B*Z 120 YM=EMAX 130 A=XM/YM 140 B=A^2 150 WM=B*ZM 160 PRINT "Calculating, please wait" 170 IF WE>WM THEN 180 ELSE 210 180 YE=YE+50 190 EMAX=YM-50 200 GOTO 90 210 PRINT "Moon weight = ";WM;" lb " 220 PRINT "Earth weight =";WE;" lb" 230 PRINT "Neutral Point :";YM;" miles from moon center." ********************************************** * THE U.F.O. 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