Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meteorites also contain carbon compounds that suggest an even more fascinating possibility. They could have been produced, says Urey, by primitive life forms that survived their violent passage from the earth and multiplied rapidly in the lunar waters during the few millenniums that the moon...
Fascinating Possibility. The moon could not remain wet for long, says Urey. Because of weak lunar gravity, the water that evaporated during the moon's long, hot days would have escaped into space, along with the primitive atmosphere. Within a few thousand years after they had formed, Urey believes, the lunar waters dried up, before they could carve out major features such as valleys and stream beds similar to those formed by water flowing on earth. If any water remains on the moon today, he says, it is probably in the form of ice buried below the surface...
Urey bases his wet-moon theory on far more than mere visual evidence. As he sees it, most of the earth's stony meteorites come from the moon, knocked off by other meteorites and occasional comets that have bombarded the lunar surface. Imbedded in many of those moon-sent meteorites are smooth fragments that appear to have been shaped by frictional effects like those that would be caused by flowing water. They also contain such minerals as clay-type silicates and calcium carbonates that Urey says "can hardly be accounted for except by the action of liquid water over...
...Moon and 2½ Tons. To David G. Carter, director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and a member of the Expo committee that four years ago began drawing up the original list of desired exhibits, the show represents "an ultimate test of the conviction that fine things will always go together." Collecting them became the responsibility of a 15-man international committee of museum officials from eleven countries, who somehow had to persuade governments, museum trustees and individuals to lend ancient, fragile, and often irreplaceable pieces...
...idea," explains Carter, "was to ask for the moon and hope for the best." Needless to say, the moon was not always delivered. The Louvre was not about to lend the Victory of Samothrace, but the Philadelphia Museum of Art came through with Rodin's 21-ton The Burghers of Calais. Italy was stingy with its Renaissance masters, saved its Donatello for its own pavilion...