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Could the moon have gold?
Golden Opportunity on the Moon The moon isn’t so barren after all. A 2009 NASA mission—in which a rocket slammed into the moon and a second spacecraft studied the blast—revealed that the lunar surface contains an array of compounds, including gold, silver, and mercury, according to PBS.
What would happen if the moon got heavier?
Billions of years from now, Earth will have a 30-hour day, all on account of the moon. So if the moon were bigger, we’d probably rotate even more slowly and have an even longer day. We can also get an idea of what a bigger moon would be like by looking at other planets in our solar system. Take Pluto.
What is the heaviest thing on the moon?
Five S-IVB third stages of Saturn V rockets from the Apollo program crashed into the Moon, and are the heaviest human-made objects on the lunar surface. Humans have left over 187,400 kilograms (413,100 lb) of material on the Moon.
What is heavier than the moon?
The mass of the Sun is about 27 million times more than the mass of the Moon.
What is the heaviest moving thing on earth?
The heaviest man-made object ever moved is the Gullfaks C installation, whose displacement during its tow to the Gullfaks field, in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea, was between 1.4 and 1.5 million tonnes (3.08 to 3.3 billion lb) at 210 m (688 ft 11.7 in) tow draft.
How heavy would I be on the moon?
Your weight on the Moon is 16.5\% what you would experience on Earth. In other words, if you weighed 100 kg on Earth, you would weigh a mere 16.5 kg on the Moon. For you imperial folks, imagine you tipped the scales at 200 pounds. Your weight on the Moon would only be 33 pounds.
Why is the Moon made of gold?
The most prevalent theory for the formation of the moon is that it is comes from light outer layers of the Earth after a massive impact. Since gold is one of the densest elements (19 times heavier than water) it takes a lot of energy to throw it into orbit, and so we expect the moon to mostly consist of light materials.
Is there any reason to strip mine a moon for gold?
If gold ever becomes so expensive that mining it from the moon becomes economical, I might take that as a gold sell signal 🙂 Cuz there’s all sorts of reasons to -not- strip mine a moon with no atmosphere. Your nihilistic noise is pathetic. It’s ours for the taking because we’re here. There isn’t any reason needed.
How much would it cost to mine the Moon for gold?
It would be vastly more expensive to put that onto the moon. But let’s be generous and say we could run a lunar gold mine with 5 workers for $3 billion per year. Gold currently sells for about $40,000 per kilogram. That means that those 5 people would have to mine 75 tonnes of gold per year just to break even.
Does life on the Moon increase the volatiles on Earth?
The Moon is thought to have much fewer volatiles than Earth. But more volatiles have been discovered by new probes in recent years than initially thought. Third, the presence of life itself might increase the amount ore deposits and diversity of minerals on Earth. This is a favorite hypothesis in the writings of geologist Robert Hazen.