The Moon

Selenium was isolated some 35 y after tellurium and, since the new element resembled tellurium, it was named from the Greek askrivr], selene, the moon. The discovery was made in 1817 by the Swedish chemist J. J. Berzelius (discoverer of Si, Ce and Th) and J. G. Gahn (discoverer of Mn) they observed a reddish-brown deposit during the burning of sulfur obtained from Fahlun copper pyrites, and showed it to be volatile and readily reducible to the new element. 

What is below is like what is above, and what is above is like that which is below, for the performing of the marvels of the one thing. And as all things were from one thing, by the mediation of one thing so all things were born of this one thing, by adaptation. Its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon the wind carried it in its belly its nurse is the Earth. This is the father of all the perfection of the whole world... You shall separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from... 

Sister Moon. The wiccaning a step-by-step guide to becoming a modem witch. Citadel P, 2001. 272p. ISBN 0-8065-2128-7... 

The mass of an object is directly associated with its weight. The weight of a body is the pull on the body by the nearest celestial body. On earth, the weight of a body is the pull of the earth on the body, but on the moon, the weight corresponds to the pull of the moon on the body. The weight of a body is directly proportional to its mass and also depends on the distance of the body from the center of the earth or moon or whatever celestial body the object is near. In contrast, the mass of an object is independent of its position. At any given location, for example on the surface of the earth, the weight of an object is directly proportional to its mass. 

John Dupre But look. The principles of fall have enabled us to put spaceships on the moon. The suggestion that mothers often take care of their children and that maybe that this has some connection with Darwinism adds absolutely nothing to what we knew already, it seems to me. And what have we discovered, what we maybe can say we now know, is that most... 

Moore (1998) suggested that the data available could be interpreted in terms of an ice crust 10-15 km thick. Christopher Chyba from the SETI Institute (Mountain View, California) has published articles in Nature (2000), the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2001a) and in Science (2001b) in which he suggests that a detailed study of this Jovian moon is necessary he discusses the possibility of a complex ecosystem, nourished by the radiation coming from outer space, on or in the ice layers of the moon. The planned Europa orbiter mission may provide certainty on this, but at least another five years of uncertainty lie ahead. The use of a submersible robot to study the (possible) ocean layer and its floor has been discussed. 

The first moon explorers brought back rock samples of a nature never before seen on earth, but they did not find any new elements. The moon rocks merely added to the proof that the moon, the earth, and the whole universe are made from the same elemental building blocks. 

Wells, H. G. 1914. The World Set Free. In The First Men in the Moon, The World Set Free, and Short Stories. London Odhams, n.d. 165-312. 

True, without error, certain and most true that which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, for performing the miracles of the One Thing and as all things are from one, by the mediation of one, so all things arose from this one thing by adaptation the father of it is the Sun, the mother of it is the Moon the wind carried it in its belly the name thereof is the Earth. 

Deeply moved, you put on the white robe, admiring its fineness, then the silver sandals of the Moon. The Regent then places the hooded indigo robe over your head. Taking the hawthorn staff, you reverently lay it on the top altar step, giving thanks to the Mysterium Magnum who has guided you on the path. 

Carbon also occurs in abundance in the sun, stars and the atmospheres of planets and their moons. The latter consist of carbon dioxide and methane. Its abundance in the earth s outer crust is estimated to be 0.2%. 

Lovell J and Kluger J. Lost Moon The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. New York Houghton Mifflin 1994. 

On the moon the water drainage would be by far less effective. In contrast to the dimensional analysis presented in Reference (9) we are well advised to add g to the relevance list ... 

As noted earlier, lunar meteorites are mostly breccias of ferroan anorthosite and related early crustal rocks, although a few mare basalt meteorites are known. The lunar meteorites likely sample the whole Moon. The absence of KREEP-rich breccias so common among Apollo samples collected from the nearside in the lunar meteorite collection implies that KREEP-rich rocks cover only a small area on the Moon. In fact, the lunar highlands meteorites appear to provide a closer match to the average lunar crust than do the Apollo highlands samples (Fig. 13.5), as measured by geochemical mapping (see below). 

Lawrence, D. J., Feldman, W. C., Barraclough, B. L. et al. (1998) Global elemental maps of the Moon the Lunar Prospector gamma-ray spectrometer. Science, 281, 1484-1489. 

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