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WHO PARKED OuR Moon? — AN OFF-WoRLD MYSTERY — OUR Moon? WHO PARKED OFF- WORLD MYSTERY Mysterious anomalies concerning the geology and position of our Junar satellite lend support to theories that our Moon was hollowed out by alien intelligences and transported into orbit around the Earth. espite six announced visits by United States astronauts between 1969 and 1972, the Moon remains a riddle to scientists in many regards. The solution to this riddle could indicate an alien aspect o! our familiar Moon. Dr Robert Jastrow, the first chairman of NASA's Lunar Exploration Committee, called the Moon "the Rosetta Stone of the planets".' Scientists had hoped that by studying the composition of the Moon, they would resolve some of the mysteries of how our planet and solar system came into existence. However, six Moon landings later, science writer Earl Ubel declared: "...the lunar Rosetta Stone remains a mystery. The Moon is more complicated than anyone expected; it is not simply a kind of billiard bal frozen in space and time, as many scientists had believed. Few of the fundamental questions have been answered, but the Apollo rocks and recordings have spawned a score of mysteries, a few truly breath-stopping."* Moon Rocks, Water Vapour and Moonquakes Among these "breath-stopping" mysteries, or "anomalies" as scientists prefer to call them, is the fact that the Moon is far older than previously imagined, perhaps even much older than the Earth and the Sun. By examining tracks burned into Moon rocks by cosmic rays, scientists have dated the rocks as billions of years old, some as far back as 4.5 billion years—far older than the Earth and "nearly as old as the solar system"? The Moon has at least three distinct layers of rocks. Contrary to the idea that heavier objects sink, the heavier rocks are found on the surface. And there is a definite disparity in the distribution of minerals. Ubell asked: "If the Earth and Moon were created at the same time, near each other, why has one body [the Earth] got all the iron and the other [the Moon| not much? The differences suggest that Earth and Moon came into being far from each other, an idea that stumbles over the inability of astrophysicists to explain how exactly the Moon became a satellite of the Earth."* The Moon is extremely dry and does not appear ever to have had water in any substantial amounts. None of the Moon rocks, regardless of where they were found, contained free water or even water molecules bound into the minerals. Yet Apollo 16 astronauts found Moon rocks that contained bits o rusted iron. Since oxidation requires oxygen and free hydrogen, this rus indicates there must be water somewhere on the Moon. Furthermore, instruments left behind by Apollo missions sent a signal to Earth on 7 March 1971, indicating that a "wind" of water had crossed the Moon's surface.’ Since any water on the airless Moon surface vaporises and behaves like the wind on Earth, the question became: where did this water originate? The vapour cloud eruptions lasted 14 hours and covered an area o' some 100 square miles, prompting Rice University physicists Dr John Freeman, Jr, and Dr H. Ken Hills to pronounce the event one of "the mos' Website: http://wwwjimmarrs.com NEXUS #55 by Jim Marrs © 1997-2010 Email: jim@jimmarrs.com DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 20II www.nexusmagazine.com