A dense object buried in our moon
The results of recent research have revealed that there is something very dense below the surface of the basin at the south pole of the moon. One thinks that it can be the rest of an asteroid that crashed against the surface of the Moon and in the same act it formed that basin in the lunar land. The mass of the object is very large: 5 times larger than the island of Hawaii. The huge chronometer extends over 2,500 kilometers on the hidden side of the Moon and realizes that it originated about 4 million years ago. With a depth of 12 kilometers it is the second largest year of the Solar System that planetary scientists know to date. Whatever it hit our satellite, it did it at a low angle and at low speed, but with that mass, it would have pulverized it. The gravitational pull with the basin indicates that the metal of the object that forms this report is still embedded in the mantle of the Moon at about 300 kilometers of depth.
The study also throws new and interesting implications on the internal nature of our Moon.
The study is based on data from the missions of the Laboratory of Recovery of Gravity and Interior (GRAIL) and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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