Webinar: Formation and chemical evolution of the Moon as the key to assess its potential resources

The presenter of the webinar was Dr Renaud Merle, a Researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University. The host of the session was EFG Secretary General Magnus Johansson.

The Moon is finally back on the top-priority list of space agencies, after nearly 50 years of overlooking. The aim of this new space race is a long-term exploration and maybe even colonisation of the solar system. In such a scheme, Earth’s moon (‘The Moon’), is seen as a step-stone to colonise Mars and then eventually beyond. In the context of unsettled supply chain, or even depletion, of critical chemical elements on Earth, the driving force of the current space race is to use resources available ‘on site’, dubbed as ‘In Situ Resource Utilization’ or ISRU. As the Moon is likely to play a key role in solar system exploration, there is a vital need to assess its natural resources. With no atmosphere or fluid on its surface, no plate tectonics or even active volcanism, the potential lunar metal resources must originate from the initial formation and early chemical evolution of the Moon. Assessing what are the chemical element resources, where they are located and eventually how they formed, means to better understanding the formation of the Moon and its early chemical differentiation. Models exist but they are not perfect. The different stages leading to the differentiation of the Moon into a planet with a core, a mantle and a crust can be traced in lunar rocks derived from the mantle such as the basaltic volcanic rocks. The purpose of this talk is to present the current knowledge of potential metal resources of the Moon and to discuss the existing models of formation and evolution of the Moon based on geochronology and geochemistry of the lunar volcanism. This approach is the key to assessing how metal resources are formed, how much of a specific element we should expect and where we should find it.

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The Moon is 27.3% the size of Earth.
The moon takes 27.3 days to orbit Earth
273 days = average length of pregnancy (10 sidereal months).
27.3 days = human menstrual cycle.
-273.2 degrees Celsius is the temperature of Absolute Zero.
27.32 is the freezing point of water on Kelvin scale (K).
Absolute zero of water is 273.2% colder than the temperature it takes to boil
27.32 earth days is the sidereal period of the moon (moon completes one full rotation)
273 days from the summer solstice to the vernal equinox.
2, 730, 000 is the circumference of the Sun in miles.
The sun and moon are the same size in the sky
This is because the sun is 400 times larger, and the moon is 400 times closer

864000 seconds in a day, sun diameter =864000
Diameter of the Moon = 2160 miles
Diameter of the Earth = 7920 miles
Diameter of the Earth + diameter of Moon = 10800 miles
10080 minutes in a week
ALL planets have these "coincidences"

How many coincidences, Magnus, before it's mathematically impossible for them to be "coincidences?"
You have no data because the moon is an artificial satellite, not some collision. The big bang is the most ridiculous non answer that leading scientists worldwide believe. Shame on them.
Knowing we are part of something special is something "they" don't want us to know.