Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kohman rejects both these theories. He analyzed tektites and found that they contain considerable amounts of radioactive isotopes (beryllium 10 and aluminum 26) that are formed by cosmic rays in space. This rules out the moon, he says. If tektites were splashed out of lunar meteor craters, they would have to come from at least a small distance below the moon's surface, where they would be sheltered from rays...
...tektites in each of the patches, which are hundreds or thousands of miles across, are different, and none of them have any relation to the earthly rocks near them. One popular theory holds that they are chips knocked off the moon by meteor impacts. Another argues that they are nonmetallic meteorites intercepted in loose swarms that melted into a kind of glass when they hit the atmosphere...
...moon is proving useful as well as decorative. The Army Signal Corps announced last week that it is sending Teletype messages by ultrahigh frequency radio bounced off the moon. Transmitted from Benson, Ariz., the waves speed to the moon and reflect from its scratchy surface back to Encino, N. Mex., a total distance of 480,000 miles. Travel time: 2.6 sec. The message could have been received about as well at any place where the moon was visible...
...great trick to shoot radio waves at the moon and get a faint echo. The Signal Corps did it first in 1946, and even radio hams do it now. But dependable communication by lunar reflection is harder. The Signal Corps and its collaborator, Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, use ultrashort waves (810 megacycles, 37 cm.) because they pass without much loss of energy through the ionized layers in the high atmosphere...
...Moon's words to earth were militarily prosaic. Clattered the machine: "This is Teletype copy received at Encino, New Mexico on the 810-megacycle band, from Benson, Arizona, via the moon...