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The Hollow Moon and the closely related Spaceship Moon are pseudoscientific hypotheses that propose that Earth's Moon is either wholly hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. No scientific evidence exists to support the idea; seismic observations and other data collected since spacecraft began to orbit or land on the Moon indicate that it has a thin crust, extensive mantle and small, dense core. Overall it is much less dense than Earth.

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The concept of a (partially) hollow Moon has been employed in science fiction multiple times, starting with H. G. Wells' 1901 novel The First Men in the Moon .' [1] [2] I

The Hollow Moon hypothesis often says the moon is hollow as a product of an alien civilization. [1] [3] It is often called the Spaceship Moon hypothesis [1] [3] and often corresponds with beliefs in UFOs or ancient astronauts. [3] In 1970, two Soviet authors published a short piece in the popular press speculating that the Moon might be "the Creation of Alien Intelligence". Since the late 1970s, the hypothesis has been endorsed by conspiracy theorists like Jim Marrs and David Icke. [4] [5]

When H. G. Wells wrote his 1901 book The First Men in the Moon the concept of hollow planets was not new. The first discussion of a Hollow Earth was by scientist Edmond Halley in 1692. [6] [7] Wells borrowed from earlier fictional works that described a hollow Earth, such as the 1741 novel Niels Klim's Underground Travels by Ludvig Holberg. [8] Both Hollow Moon and Hollow Earth are now considered to be fringe theories or conspiracy theories. [1]

Claims and rebuttals

Density

The fact that the Moon is less dense than the Earth is advanced by conspiracy theorists as support for claims of a hollow Moon. [9] The Moon's mean density is 3.3 g/cm3, whereas the Earth's is 5.5 g/cm3. [10] Mainstream science argues this difference is due to the fact that the Earth's upper mantle and crust are less dense than its heavy, iron core. [10] [2] [11]

The Moon rang like a bell

Between 1969 and 1977, seismometers installed on the Moon by the Apollo missions recorded moonquakes. The Moon was described as "ringing like a bell" during some of those quakes, specifically the shallow ones. [12] This phrase was brought to popular attention in March 1970 [1] in an article in Popular Science . [13]

On November 20, 1969, Apollo 12 deliberately crashed the Ascent Stage of its Lunar Module onto the Moon's surface; NASA reported that the Moon rang 'like a bell' for almost an hour, leading to arguments that it must be hollow like a bell. [1] Lunar seismology experiments since then have shown that the lunar body has shallow moonquakes that act differently from quakes on Earth, due to differences in texture, type and density of the planetary strata, but there is no evidence of any large empty space inside the body. [12]

Vasin-Shcherbakov "spaceship" conjecture

Speculative cutaway model of a Spaceship Moon Spaceship moon.jpg
Speculative cutaway model of a Spaceship Moon

In 1970, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, advanced a hypothesis that the Moon is a spaceship created by unknown beings. [3] The article was entitled "Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?" and was published in Sputnik , the Soviet equivalent of Reader's Digest . [1] [14] The Vasin-Shcerbakov hypothesis was reported in the West that same year. [15]

The authors reference earlier speculation by astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky, who suggested that the Martian moon Phobos was an artificial satellite and hollow; this has since been shown not to be the case. [16] Skeptical author Jason Colavito points out that all of their evidence is circumstantial, and that, in the 1960s, the atheistic Soviet Union promoted the ancient astronaut concept in an attempt to undermine the West's faith in religion. [3]

"Perfect" solar eclipses

In 1965, author Isaac Asimov observed: "What makes a total eclipse so remarkable is the sheer astronomical accident that the Moon fits so snugly over the Sun. The Moon is just large enough to cover the Sun completely (at times) so that a temporary night falls and the stars spring out. [...] The Sun's greater distance makes up for its greater size and the result is that the Moon and the Sun appear to be equal in size. [...] There is no astronomical reason why Moon and Sun should fit so well. It is the sheerest of coincidence, and only the Earth among all the planets is blessed in this fashion." [17]

Since the 1970s, conspiracy theorists have cited Asimov's observations on solar eclipses as evidence of the Moon's artificiality. [18] [19] Mainstream astronomers reject this interpretation. They note that the angular diameters of Sun and Moon vary by several percent over time and do not actually "perfectly" match during eclipses. [20] Nor is Earth the only planet with such a satellite: Saturn's moon Prometheus has roughly the same angular diameter as the Sun when viewed from Saturn. [20]

Some scholars have claimed that "the conditions required for perfect solar eclipses are the same conditions generally acknowledged to be necessary for intelligent life to emerge"; If so, the Moon's size and orbit might be best explained by the weak anthropic principle. [20] [21] [22]

Scientific perspective

Multiple lines of evidence demonstrate that the Moon is a solid body which formed from an impact between Earth and a planetoid.

Origin of the Moon

Historically, it was theorized that the Moon originated when a rapidly-spinning Earth expelled a piece of its mass. [23] This was proposed by George Darwin (son of the famous biologist Charles Darwin) in 1879 [24] and retained some popularity until Apollo. [23] The Austrian geologist Otto Ampferer in 1925 also suggested the emerging of the Moon as cause for continental drift. [25] A second hypothesis argued the Earth and the Moon formed together as a double system from the primordial accretion disk of the Solar System. [26] [27] Finally, a third hypothesis suggested that the Moon may have been a planetoid captured by Earth's gravity. [23] [28] [29]

The modern explanation for the origin of the Moon is usually the giant-impact hypothesis, which argues a Mars-sized body struck the Earth, making a debris ring that eventually collected into a single natural satellite, the Moon. [30] [31] The giant-impact hypothesis is currently the favored scientific hypothesis for the formation of the Moon. [32]

Internal structure

Schematic cross-section of the internal structure of the Moon Main lunar core en.jpg
Schematic cross-section of the internal structure of the Moon

Multiple lines of evidence disprove that the Moon is hollow. [1] [33] One involves moment of inertia parameters; the other involves seismic observations. [1] [33] The moment of inertia parameters indicate that the core of the Moon is both dense and small, with the rest of the Moon consisting of material with nearly-constant density. Seismic observations have been made, constraining the thickness of the Moon's crust, mantle and core, demonstrating it could not be hollow. [34]

Mainstream scientific opinion on the internal structure of the Moon overwhelmingly supports a solid internal structure with a thin crust, an extensive mantle and a small denser core. [35] [36]

Moment of inertia factor

BodyMoment
of inertia
factor
Hollow Sphere0.67
Uniform Sphere0.4
Denser at Core< 0.4
Moon0.39
Earth0.33
All Mass at Core0.0

The moment of inertia factor is a number, ranging from 0 to .67, that represents the distribution of mass in a spherical body. A moment of inertia factor of 0 represents a body with all its mass concentrated at its central core, while a factor of .67 represents a perfectly hollow sphere. [37] A moment of inertia factor of 0.4 corresponds to a sphere of uniform density, while factors less than 0.4 represent bodies with cores that are more dense than their surfaces. [38] The Earth, with its dense inner core, has a moment of inertia factor of 0.3307 [38]

In 1965, astronomer Wallace John Eckert attempted to calculate the lunar moment of inertia factor using a novel analysis of the Moon's perigee and node. [39] His calculations suggested the Moon might be hollow, a result Eckert rejected as absurd. [40] Subsequent analysis revealed Eckert had failed to account for nonuniformity of Earth's rotation in the orbital theory of the Moon. [41] By 1968, other methods had allowed the Moon's moment of inertia factor to be accurately calculated at its accepted value. [42]

From 1969 to 1973, five retroreflectors were installed on the Moon during the Apollo program (11, 14, and 15) and Lunokhod 1 and 2 missions. [43] These reflectors made it possible to measure the distance between the surfaces of the Earth and the Moon using extremely precise laser ranging. True (physical) libration of the Moon measured via Lunar laser ranging constrains the moment of inertia factor to 0.394 ± 0.002. [44] This is very close to the value for a solid object with radially constant density, which would be 0.4. [44]

Seismic activity

From 1969 through 1972, Apollo astronauts installed several seismographic measuring systems on the Moon and their data made available to scientists (such as those from the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package). The Apollo 11 instrument functioned through August of the landing year. The instruments placed by the Apollo 12, 14, 15, and 16 missions were functional until they were switched off in 1977. [45] [46]

The existence of moonquakes was an unexpected discovery from seismometers. Analysis of lunar seismic data has helped constrain the thickness of the crust (~45 km) [36] [47] and mantle, as well as the core radius (~330 km). [35]

Doppler Gravity Experiment

A visualization of the lunar gravity field based on Lunar Prospector data. LPgravityfield.png
A visualization of the lunar gravity field based on Lunar Prospector data.

In 1998, the United States launched the Lunar Prospector, which hosted the Doppler Gravity Experiment (DGE) -- the first polar, low-altitude mapping of the lunar gravity field. The Prospector DGE obtained data constituted the "first truly operational gravity map of the Moon". [48] The purpose of the Lunar Prospector DGE was to learn about the surface and internal mass distribution of the Moon. [48] This was accomplished by measuring the Doppler shift in the S-band tracking signal as it reaches Earth, which can be converted to spacecraft accelerations. [48] The accelerations can be processed to provide estimates of the lunar gravity field. Estimates of the surface and internal mass distribution give information on the crust, lithosphere, and internal structure of the Moon. [48]

Fiction

Conspiracy theory

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