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The Moon and the Asteroid Belt
The Asteroid Belt lies between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is a belt of both small and very large fragments of rock. Some astronomers used to believe the Asteroid Belt had once been a planet it its own right but they now comment that there is not enough material in it to create a whole planet. However, they also know that much of the original material it once contained is missing, so where did it all go?
The Missing Material
The Asteroid Belt contains many different sorts of rock but something
doesn't quite add up. Estimates show that most of the lightweight, volcanic rock that should be part of the Asteroid belt is missing - so where did it go? Collisions in the Asteroid Belt sometimes send pieces of rock spinning out of orbit and some of these fall to Earth as meteorites but material lost to space can't account for all the missing volcanic rock. A Clue?
The picture on the left is of Ceres. Ceres is a body in the Asteroid Belt and in fact the largest asteroid of all - which is why it is sometimes referred to as a minor planet. Unlike other fragments, it is massive enough to have adopted a spherical shape under its own gravitational forces.
What interested me when I studied Ceres was its size and mass. The Moon is 3.66 times smaller than the Earth but it has a mass that is only 1/81st part that of the Earth. Now here is the really strange fact. Ceres is exactly 3.66 times smaller than the Moon and has a mass that is 1/81st part of that of the Moon! In other words the relationship of Earth and Moon is absolutely mirrored in the relationship of the Moon and Ceres. This would be an outrageous coincidence under any circumstances but when we bear in mind that the size and mass relationship of the Earth and Moon is odd to say the least, finding the same relationship between the Moon and Ceres is well beyond freaky. Message in a Bottle
The unbelievably odd relationships in terms of size, mass and orbital characteristics between the Earth and the Moon act as what I have referred to as 'Messages in a Bottle'. Things were organized in this way to act as clues, that will force us to look more closely at the Moon and to realise 'what' it really is and how it came to be there. Ceres, with its size and mass relationship with the Moon is also such a clue - these relationships simply could not exist by chance and so the only alternative explanation is that someone intended them to be that way. The ploy worked because I discovered the peculiar relationships of the Moon and Ceres. So why did our future selves want us to focus our attention on the Asteroid Belt?
Meteors in the Moon
When we bear in mind the problem of all the missing volcanic rock from the Asteroid Belt and then realise what the Moon is made of, the answer becomes obvious. The lightweight volcanic rock for the Moon had to be harvested from somewhere. I had originally thought it all came from the Earth, but it would have been much easier to use physics to bring it from the asteroid belt. Suitable rock was selected and then forced onto a journey, using Mars as a slingshot, towards the Sun. As it crossed the Earth's orbit the material was collected and eventually it formed well over 90% of the Moon. The amount of work necessary would have been a fraction of that needed to remove all the Moon's material from the Earth and in any case even the then thick crust of the Earth would not have been sufficient to create the Moon.
Earth Surface - Moon Surface
It is a near certainty that the surface layer of the Moon came from Earth. This was necessary because the original crust of the Earth was too thick to allow plate tectonics to begin, which in turn was essential for eventual life. The top layer of the Earth's crust had to be removed and this is what became the surface layer of the Moon. Additional proof of this lies in the fact that surface Moon rocks are known to have been heated to an extremely high temperature in the remote past - something that happened when the material was blasted from the surface of the Earth.
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