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on the surface or not?
Doubt it,being as no ones ever been to the moon.
on the surface or not?
on the surface or not?
You don't have to go there to find the US leftovers - anyone can fire a laser to the moon and have it reflected back from a mirror they left up there. It's how we measure the distance from us to it. I don't happen to have a laser handy though.
Yep in 50,000 years it will be an extra Km further away.
No more solar eclipses then, or at least pretty ones with a "diamond ring" effect.
It depends if it lands nearby.
Yep, just partial solar eclipses.
When it gets too far away it would change a lot of things like the tides and the stability of the Earths Axial Tilt. It would even be classed as a planet in its own right.
Surely it's smaller than pluto, so would be a planetoid rather than a planet. Don't think I'll hold my breath for it either way.
Pluto is 2/3 the size of the Moon in circumference and Mars is twice the circumference of the Moon.
Ah, ok, probably not then. But will the moon still be orbiting the earth if it's that far away, and if it is, surely it's still a moon. If it break from the Earths' gravity and starts orbiting the sun solely, then I can see it could then be a planet, might have an extravagant orbit though.
The Chinese will land on and unofficially "claim" a completely different part of moon. The next century will see the beginning of humanity utilising the moons potential for mining and energy and there will be international disputes over who owns what, but it may come down to a first come first serve basis, a bit like how much of colonisation happened on earth - despite current treaties stating that no country can claim ownership to anything in space.
So in regards to your question, no they won't - but it is all there, you can see it from earth.
The Spaceship Moon Theory as postulated by two members of the then Soviet Academy of Sciences, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, in a July 1970 article entitled "Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?"
Tenerife?
The problem with Chinese moon missions is, half an hour later, you want another one.