Who Parked Our Moon?

Mysterious anomalies concerning the geology and position of our lunar satellite lend support to theories that our Moon is "artificial".

- Jim Marrs

Dr Robert Jastrow, the first chairman of NASA'sLunar Exploration Committee, called the Moon"the Rosetta Stone of the planets".1 Scientists had hoped that by studying the composition of the Moon, they would resolve some of the mysteries of how our planet and solar system came into existence. However, six Moon landings later, science writer Earl Ubell declared: "…the lunar Rosetta Stone remains a mystery. The Moon is more complicated than anyone expected; it is not simply a kind of billiard ball frozen in space and time, as many scientists had believed. Few of the fundamental questions have been answered, but the Apollo rocks and recordings have spawned a score of mysteries, a few truly breath-stopping."2

Moon Rocks, Water Vapour and Moonquakes

Among these "breath-stopping" mysteries, or "anomalies" as scientists prefer to call them, is the fact that the Moon is far older than previously imagined, perhaps even much older than the Earth and the Sun. By examining tracks burned into Moon rocks by cosmic rays, scientists have dated the rocks as billions of years old, some as far back as 4.5 billion years—far older than the Earth and "nearly as old as the solar system".3

Ubell asked: "If the Earth and Moon were created at the same time, near each other, why has one body [the Earth] got all the iron and the other [the Moon] not much? The differences suggest that Earth and Moon came into being far from each other, an idea that stumbles over the inability of astrophysicists to explain how exactly the Moon became a satellite of the Earth."4

The Moon is extremely dry and does not appear ever to have had water in any substantial amounts. None of the Moon rocks, regardless of where they were found, contained free water or even water molecules bound into the minerals.