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Would be interesting to see if this can be tied to impact events back on earth. Given the gravity of the moon a volcano can definitely blast earth with materia
by dogma1138 7y ago
Would be interesting to see if this can be tied to impact events back on earth.
Given the gravity of the moon a volcano can definitely blast earth with material.
- ijiiijji1 7y agoNot necessarily. There are many types of volcanoes, and shield volcanoes aren't as violent... they ooze material rather than explode like a cinder cone. That lava wouldn't have enough momentum to go very far.
- willis936 7y agoI’m no geologist, but I’d be rather surprised to hear of a volcano that spits large volumes of material out at thousands of feet per second (delta-V necessary to transition from a lunar orbit to Earth). I would think it’s more likely that if there was a correlation between a large impact on Earth and seismic activity on the moon it would be Earth’s seismic activity that had a larger influence on the moon. Again, not in the field so take this all with salt.
- BurningFrog 7y agoWith low gravity and no atmosphere, I can imagine stray rocks escaping into space. I'd be real surprised if they were of any significant size though.
- aiyodev 7y agoIsn't it more likely that volcanic activity on the moon was caused by meteor impacts? Maybe there used to be a lot of asteroids in Earth's orbit. The moon took a lot of the hits until the big one slipped by killing the dinosaurs.