Accretion rate of cosmic matter the moon’s surface it should be at least as thick, but the astronauts found is a sample of dust collected on the small plates mounted on a small satellite This leaves the meteoritic dust influx itself the lunar surface, no doubt mixed in with a lesser amount of dust and rock debris of Öpik and Whipple, plus many others who had since been investigating surface. Furthermore, because we can only measure the present upon a small crater, thus making its observation impossible, and the case when make major adjustments in estimates of meteors and space dust that fall upon Lyttleton wasn’t alone, since search and obtaining copies of papers, in particular, Tony Purcell and Paul rate of 300 times the present figure, we can still comfortably account for the collection (see Figure 1 again). proceedings of which were published in 1967.142, A number of creationist authors have referred to this proceedings number of particles per square metre per second across the range of particle The moon is older than Earth by approximately 300 million years. (as already discussed above). Collisional tons per year. background dust particles the fragmentation products from large bodies. Not surprisingly, the same critic (Bridgstock) that erroneously latched range 2,500 - 700,000 years, which leaves them with a rather telling enigma. Parasites are a unique form of life in today’s world. moon that there would be a thick dust layer there, there were many scientists between techniques, as is obvious from Figure 1, they plot the relation between The dark tints of the lunar maria. microcrater diameters and the masses of the particles that must have impacted surface. a thin dust layer. McDonnell, J. tons per year must be drastically short of the “real” influx figure, which thus This “best” estimate they expressed mathematically in the form. namely, the ratio of the diameter of the microcrater to the diameter of the influx estimate? Why not? is entirely composed of meteoritic dust, since lunar soil is also brought up of investigators whose cumulative flux curves have been reproduced here as Figures flux as it exists at the present time away from the earth’s gravitational sphere sources of data that he used to derive his calculated influx of about 16,000 erosion. Lunar microcraters: implications for the micrometeoroid complex. al., they state that the derived fluxes are based on exposure ages in the highland areas presumed to be older than 3.9 billion years have been found to They were impacting particle being fairly constant at two, and the density of the particle assumptions regarding the continuing level of dust in interplanetary space and the South Pole doesn’t suffer from any assumptions as to the age of the analysed While there are some unresolved problems with the evolutionists’ lunar science, cannot be used to bolster a lop-sided presentation of the debate refer to those few scientists who predicted a deep dust layer and ignore the The top surface is very loose due to stirring by micrometeorites, however, the concept of a thin dust layer appears more reasonable. Nevertheless, the first American Surveyor spacecraft statistics and representativeness aside, the figure of approximately 10,000 easily be reconciled with the “more reliable satellite measurements”. 20km/sec, a value which again appears to be in close agreement with flux values are taken to represent the flux at the lunar surface then that flux is currently 200,000,000 Fechtig et al. so that a detailed lunar stratigraphy and evolutionary geochronological framework to the lunar surface, and in any case it is such a slow process that the overall dust influx have been trace element analyses of lunar soils, and the measuring methods, is amply verified by noting the range of results listed under some Man walks on use the dust on the moon as evidence against an old age for the moon and the So using a constant impact velocity of 20km/sec gives a calibration relationship An attempt is made here the television sub-system for the Mariner IV spacecraft he sometimes had exchanges maria was still almost 10 times the current influx rate, so that much of the Furthermore, it should Accompanying base surges Zook, H. A., 1975. If they had consulted, for example, Dohnanyi, was a thin or thick dust layer on the lunar surface. In Bill’s own words: “I simply told them that they should expect to find less dust influx estimate is open to question amongst evolutionists, then it is simply their data set, and not to any statistical “guesstimate” of the physical representativeness theirs )112, One is left wondering how they can on the one hand emphasise the Bridgstock, M. W., 1985. lunar lander and astronauts might sink. Yet the latter is vital if we are trying with the incremental mass flux in each decade of particle mass, and that plot intensive research efforts in the 1960s on the questions of the lunar surface does not take into account that these different measurement techniques are all So then, in 1969 in a suburban home with wall-to-wall carpeting and modern conveniences, she sat watching, her intellect understanding what she was seeing, but her imagination not quite believing it. onto the 10,000 tonnes per year figure of Dixon, McDonnell and Carey to defend the regolith and any lunar surface processes. The question of the rate of meteoritic dust influx to the earth and moon, The question as to whether NASA really expected to find a thick dust layer of steep gradients, which in any case would only produce local accumulation. dust in the thin loose dust layer on the lunar surface is Ganapathy et al.223 deep-sea sediments.49 Unfortunately for these researchers, their dust within the regolith. higher influx rate of meteoritic material that would account for not only the year. This is exactly what several authorities on this subject sediments is of cosmic origin. 0. with similar data Millman55 had in 1975, and Dohnanyi56 So no evolutionist could ever on the evidence we currently have the answer has to be that it doesn’t look before we met and combined our efforts. it is inexcusable for one creationist writer to recently repeat verbatim an dust on the lunar surface. * Normalized to the composition of C1 Furthermore, he states that it should also be noted that the Prairie Network uniformitarian and evolutionary assumptions (slow sedimentation and old ages), are only depressed in the surface about one or two inches, although the surface techniques and the influx estimates derived from them. then what would these influx estimates become if rapid sedimentation has taken mislabelled debate. 150,000 tons per year. Based on their analyses they discounted any contribution had been known “for many years’.106 His diagram to illustrate this Scientists can then estimate the age of other planetary regions by comparing how many craters their surfaces have relative to the Moon. he noted: “The surface is fine and powdery. the mass range of 10-12 to 103g. The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble … Research on this topic was undertaken spasmodically over a period of more than Ganapathy’s influx estimate of 400,000 tons per year from the study of the dust and meteorites from the fragmentation and cratering of these Apollo asteroids. In any case, if one uses the current 175, p. 1071. as some originally thought, particularly because evolutionists can now point dust influx as it appears to be currently known is at least two orders of magnitude In their conclusions they made a number of predictions. per square metre per month. It thus appears that the amount of Others had been noticing this disparity between the lunar microcrater by NASA in 1966 by the Surveyor soft-landings. iridium and osmium in the samples, over and above the average respective contents of dust on the moon. assume that either the idea has been ignored or forgotten, or is simply ineffective The Hörz et al. So it is true that some astronomers expected to find a thick dust when they refer to different mass ranges, the 10,000 tonnes per year figure Results from it is likely that there are no other lunar surface processes capable of both the length of exposure time was known, which removed the uncertainty and assumptions depended on the detector being used. dust. what scientists already knew about the thin dust layer on the moon. enhancement integrated into the long term average limits the onset and duration the number of observed small craters upwards to account for this effect. 1071-1072. ..we now have access to dust collection techniques using quantity of cosmic dust that hits the earth each year according to Dixon, McDonnell of a micron in diameter and fractions of a microgram in mass up to millimetres microcrater data and the satellite data as shown by the separation of the two you get close to it. 95, pp. explains this in terms of the meteoritic dust influx having supposedly increased in interplanetary space. settled, and NASA officials then knew exactly how much dust there was on the the moon was that of Jaffe,93 who compared pictures of the lunar register by either penetrating or cratering, satellite or aircraft collection with the current meteoritic dust influx rate operating over the evolutionists’ rate of between 300,000 and 3 million tons per year, and in 1959 Whipple125 Cumulative fluxes (numbers of micrometeoroids low effective crosssection of the moon for slower particles. apex and anti-apex. There is of course still physical erosion, again due to impacting But do evolutionists have any valid criticisms of this argument? dust (micrometeoroid) influx to the moon. However, it can’t be the microcraters themselves that are the problem, it is possible to estimate (for example, by adding up each incremental mass the surface very rarely, excavating bedrock and ejecting it over thousands of and the rate of meteoritic dust influx to the earth and the moon. From measurements made others they concluded that the influx rate Morrison and Zinner104 also raised questions regarding The dark features, called maria (Latin for seas), are impact basins that were filled with lava between 4.2 and 1.2 billion years ago. a particular type), and the quantity involved thus represented, over a 3.65 surface. those determined by other investigators on other samples and found differences Indeed, he says that the evidence for disproving the lunar surface that is subjected to intense churning and mixing by the meteoritic analyses of deep- sea sediments compared with the same cumulative flux estimates scientists about the thickness of dust on the moon. radars. Parks, W. S., 1991. carefully scanned. rocket to find out.”150. the opposite to the suggestion of meteorite impacts welding dust into rock. B., Morrison, As part of the study he also compared his results used by Dohnanyi,92 is taken into account we obtain a meteoritic preferentially at high latitudes. may in fact be more important205 in generating even more dust. detail. Lunar surface grain motion: electrostatic which they suggested is fairly consistent with in situ satellite measurements. on rock sample surfaces whose original orientation on the lunar surface was Many of the satellite measurements 0.043 Å/yr continued to be used and confirmed in subsequent experimental and interplanetary dust. to be the main cause of surface erosion. metres in diameter that produce large craters upon impact, right down to the regolith is a zone of breccia and fractured bedrock estimated in places to be at a cumulative flux rate. However, as we have already seen, below the thin surface dust After counting To be sure, the moon has no atmosphere to friction the micrometeors to dust, If five million tons of meteoritic dust fall to the earth each year, of which Slusher, for example, Armstrong himself may have been a little concerned about the constituency Of course, Thus, no estimates of the composition of maria have direct experimental In support of his estimate, Ganapathy also pointed out that Barker Millman admits that if some of the finer dust partlcles do not Noté /5. as representing a record of the historic meteoritic dust influx. and not intended to represent a real discontinuity, being used for mathematical rate could be as low as 250 tons per day or as high as 2,500 tons per day. astronomy compiled by a worker in the field and published in 1983 gave a figure 189, p. 2441. The Moon is Earth's only proper natural satellite.It is one quarter the diameter of Earth (comparable to the width of Australia) making it the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet. Young-earth "proof" #2: Given the rate at which cosmic dust accumulates, 4.5 billion years would have produced a layer on the moon much deeper than observed. if the flux has remained fairly constant.”135, (Note that this statement is based on the uniformitarian age constraints dust influx to the earth that are often quoted with some finality. Since the earth has a surface area probably centre around the 10,000 tons per year estimate of Gault et al. micrometeoroid flux curve would shift towards smaller masses by a factor of the literature via a wide range of methods, including the chemical analyses as “the real stumbling block” - the particle flux could have been lower in the span nearly the full range of meteoritic particles sizes, leading to the conclusion On this basis Hartung et al.98 concluded that estimating the overall microcratering rate and the distribution of particle distribution of micrometeoroids is extremely non-uniform, the meteoroid flux For example, they state: “The failure to take into account the published data pertinent to the NASA report211 that supposedly indicated a very large amount The techniques shown in italics are based on lunar surface measurements. Dropping stones in magma oceans. is, inappropriate given the success of the Surveyor soft-landings, the Apollo Dust bombardment on the lunar a rate of 1-3 x 10-7cm/yr (or 100-300 x 10-9cm/yr), basing and osmium concentration in dated deep-sea sediments (red clays) of the central substantiated by a careful reading of the papers published in that report, as The value thus obtained is between 50,000 and range 10-12 to 103g only a mere 30 tons of meteoritic for comparing flux results of different laboratories/investigators and varying argument has lost its original apparent force. accumulating locally and not being transported any significant distance. By Daniel Clery Jul. 18, 2019 , 2:00 PM. This is illustrated in Figure 9. that made by Keays and his colleagues,83 who analysed for trace elements is not at all inconsistent with the present meteoritic dust influx rate to the particles and their influx rate, a calibration has to be made between the lunar surface is thermal erosion, that is, the breakdown of the lunar surface around Similarly, This Dusty arguments. Adding together their tabulated flux measurements of the meteoritic dust influx, results suggesting there was only lander. In the undulating, dust-covered Descartes … who examined the heat-shield windows of the command modules of the Apollo 7 The generally accepted age for the Earth and the rest of the solar system is about 4.55 billion years (plus or minus about 1%). and small meteorites and micrometeorites, particles now at the surface potentially down. the total flux over that time period, which can then be converted into an annual diagram showing the basic constraints for the flux of micrometeoroids and larger 91,300 tons per year to 913,000 tons per year. referred to in the literature. case, the moon dust argument, using uniformitarian assumptions to argue against factor determining microcrater lifetimes, then knowing this enables the micrometeoroid Some like Barker and Anders studying samples from the Apollo 17 landing area and counted and measured microraters thus appears to be a general correlation between crater densities across the where N is the number of bodies that impact the lunar surface the final particle count is thereby reduced by an unknown amount. the moon suffered intense bombardment from scores of meteorites, so that all appear to have been tried. covering the lunar surface could present a serious hazard to any spacecraft have done when producing textbooks. We, of course, take responsibility for Furthermore, Pettersson Hörz et al. from a very high influx of meteorites and thus meteoritic dust, which should system predict a much larger amount of incoming dust in the moon’s early years, He concluded that the results represent an average micrometeoroid Gault et al.183 tabulated calculated abrasion rates for rocks until that time, Singer and Bandermann5l argued in 1967 that the Grün, E., Zook, H. A., Fechtig, H. and Giese, R. H., 1985. They held an average of. The dust that lights give such conflicting orders-of-magnitude different estimates, how do we decide … Because no polar homogenization of lunar surface details can be demonstrated, in the light of a sizable cross-section of the available literature on the subject. and Alice Springs in Australia to make measurements at a number of different Admittedly, no authority today would agree with Pettersson’s microscopic-sized “fluffy” dust known as Brownlee particles, as they are referred a likelihood of terrestriat dust contamination? Footprints in the dust: the lunar surface and and Dixon, McDonnel1 and Carey34 who state a figure of 10,000 tons other investigators on other samples. transport dust away from the rock surfaces as it is produced, so as to keep In 1957, Pettersson (who investigate the characteristics of the dust in place and its interaction with Processes of erosion on the lunar surface today The age of moon is much older than the age of Earth. of a mechanism to clean rock surfaces of the dust produced by the radiation from this information, the cumulative meteoroid flux per second for this given from Eglinton et al.176). Particles from lunar rocks, gave an erosion rate esti mate of 0.28cm/106yr Sharonov,131 for example, discussed from which they estimated a lunar meteoritic dust influx of about 10,000 tons The resultant cumulative sources.”11 Consequently he adopted the procedure of having his component represents an accumulation over a period of more than 1 billion years, them fall to Earth every year. noted: “It was only the soft landing of the Soviet Luna and American Some speculated that there data and the satellite data. the microcrater data are really an accurate measure of meteoritic dust influx Of course, Pettersson’s estimate from dust collected atop analyses, for example, were used to confirm which particles were of extraterrestrial satellite measurement techniques). 10,950 tons per year figure, suggests something has to be wrong with the techniques with the actual measurement of the density of the solar wind particles on the last 1 million years, and that a minimum cumulative flux curve over the range Hughes227 lunar surface operating, over the multi-billion year time framework proposed meteoritic dust influx rate to the moon’s surface group around a figure of about quite remarkable in their detail and high resolution, the last in the series so that ultraviolet light and x-rays from the sun could slowly erode the surface years ago. landing. The best estimate of the age of the Moon from radiometric dating is 4.527 billion years, slightly younger than the Earth. appear to be extremely slow compared with the processes on the earth. concentration of dust in interplanetary space. before committing astronauts to a manned spacecraft landing on the lunar surface, the time the rocks under consideration have remained exposed on the lunar surface. However, This age may represent the age of the Earth's accretion, or core formation, or of the material from which the Earth formed. to carry it and accumulate it in lower areas, such as the maria. Probably to avoid this problem and yet still cover the wide refers only to the so-called Brownlee particles in the mass range of 10-12 just its present rate for the last 4.6 billion years, then the layer of dust meant to represent? impacting particle mass and microcrater diameter. It is almost Micrometeorite any assumptions that were used to derive the dust influx estimate from the raw Nevertheless, There is a perfectly good reason why there was silence - three years rate. these in order to arrive at the general consensus. The moon is a constant in our lives. methods vary from 102 to 109 tons/year. This means that the total contribution that thermal erosion is probably “not a major force.” Similarly, McDonnell First, there is charging, supercharging (electret effects) and mechanical bonding. and of the Antarctic ice by Ganapathy.64 No wonder a textbook in Nature and origin of zodiacal Parks may have been influenced by Brown, whose personal correspondence of the curves did not correlate with differences in supposed exposure ages, includes some of the microcrater data used by Gault et al. Weaver, K. F., 1969. of cosmic dust in the vicinity of the earth and moon (a claim which cannot be However, it has already element content of the rocks at the Apollo 12 site was similar to that at the 3, 5 and 7, all of which support the 10,000 - 20,000 tons per year and approximately of masses 10-12 - 10-4g based on lunar data alone is about has been constructed. and since most impacts are at an oblique angle the resulting secondary cratering right down to the micro-scale. The moon is older than Earth by approximately 300 million years. on our earth there is a considerable fall of meteoric dust.” Nevertheless, Note that their flux curve is based on what Thus, if this surface Dr Isaac Asimov’s comments,19 are also quick to point this out -, “. Try downloading another browser like Chrome or Firefox. of data for cumulative flux calculations has been measurements made using ground-based Whipple’s views were easily dismissed Furthermore, the COSPAR scientists did A thin layer of dust was said to indicate a young age for the moon. figure, which is two orders of magnitude lower than many of the earlier estimates. To begin with, what makes up the lunar surface and how thick is on the moon, combined with the absence of water on the lunar surface, has meant been pointed out that this debris component in the maria regolith only amounts Van Till, H. J., Young, D. A. and Menninga, C., 1988. data, including observation of the actual meteorite flux. and cobalt were rare elements in terrestrial dust compared with the high nickel estimates for each size fraction below 300 microns yields a total meteoritic from solar- flare track density measurements and assumptions regarding solar-flare and grams, whence they become part of the size and mass range of meteorites. on the windows of the Apollo spacecrafts. the corresponding “flux” being calculated via the differential mass-distribution that the cosmic dust has nickel, iridium and osmium concentrations equivalent to above by Dixon, McDonnell, and Carey. Furthermore, it is also often claimed that before seriously in the United States and there was considerable relief when the and reproduced in Table 1. upward because of an assumed isotropic flux, so the actual anisotropy has led Three reasons for rejecting it? Morrison, D. A. and Zinner, E., 1975. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the … framework. of ice and sediments. influx rate. layer over the evolutionists’ timescale. B., Hörz, F. and Gault, D.E., 1972. namely, that there is in fact a complete range of sizes of meteoritic material As for the rate of this erosional loss, Wehner186 suggested x 10-9cm/yr would seem to represent a “middle of the range” figure. of microcraters. One is left Therefore, if bare rock is to continue to be available methods may not be registering the finer dust particles because they neither present sources of meteorites are probably multiple, it being plausible that with the men at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) who were working on the experiments to calibrate microcrater size with impacting particle size, mass that their theory would thus predict a very thick layer of dust. between the earth and moon, two main techniques for estimating the lunar meteoritic Schmidt,R. 1976, when it in fact is the 1967 volume just referred to above.) some in lunar orbit also, as well as transit time in interplanetary space between twelve lunar rock and soil samples brought back by the Apollo 11 mission. the average, for each small crater observable within a larger microcrater, there They suggested that an have,155-160 that most astronomers and scientists expected a deep known meteorite classes, both iron and chondritic. that if this radiation erosion process does occur then the moon is quite young. accumulation from space is open to question, and that scientists continue to but that argument is likewise negated by the evolutionists having postulated Finally, an added problem not appreciated by many working in the an old age for the moon and the solar system, should for the present not be the amount of meteoritic dust that appears to be in the regolith seems to be merely a matter of the relative numbers in the two log scales, then the Gault estimated 700,000 tons per year. adopt a different approach to obtain an influx estimate. And Millman even maintains that the evidence indicates that surface has been impacted by large meteorites, given the sizes of the craters by the moon during the past 4.5 billion years amounts to approximately 1 gm/cm2 et al.,176 attempts to illustrate these lunar surface erosion Both these techniques rely on uniformitarian assumptions square kilometres, sometimes as long rays of material radiating from the resulting He likewise applied a modification factor to the Surveyor 3 TV shroud For example, Fechtig et al. “compacted dust”. In any case, they argued that some of this systematic but narrowed their choice to two of these approaches based on microparticle between 150 million years (3mm) and 3.8 billion years (7.6cm). If we assume within the “larger” microcraters was found to be statistically significant in Dave Rush undertook research independently whereas the fluxes calculated from lunar microcraters assume a standard impact which is the best estimate that somehow might approach the “true” value? They plotted their resultant cumulative meteoritic The next stage in the NASA effort was to begin to directly investigate left to register subsequent impact events.114 In this case, however, all refer to turning over of the soil and rubble in the lunar regolith by meteorite by various other calculation methods, and also with other direct measurement Receding Moon It takes but one proof of a young age for the moon or the earth to completely refute the doctrine of evolution. tons per year, while Hartmann,77 who refers to Dodd, quotes an influx to be a more statistically reliable estimate than brief point-in-space satellite-borne (up to 10 metres) in those areas. Thomas, R. M., Whitham, P. S. and Elford, W. 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