Change in primary source

Its a little late but I've found that talking to Mr.Dupree is an unrealistic idea so instead I'm going to e-mail the Sunsplash guys now that I see that one of the sites included their e-mail addresses.

that makes my new primary resources:
R. Todd Fox (rfox@ssf3.jsc.nasa.gov)
and
Ryan Kolter (rkolter@grail.cba.csuohio.edu)

I hope they'll e-mail me back quick enough...

citation

citation for mass or earth, a minor fact but a fact none-the-less

Hewitt, Paul G. Conceptual Physics. Addison-Wesley, 1987: Table B-1

site for gravity of the moon and mon-weight

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215468/our_moon.htm

Intro: Numba 2

Stealing the Moon: A How to Guide
The moon has been a fixture in our solar system for an untold amount of years, scarred with tens of thousands of meteorite impacts not obscured in the least by its nonexistent atmosphere. It orbits us once a month, growing from an empty sky to a full moon in twenty eight and a half days. It pulls on our oceans from all the way in space causing the tides twice a day and it is the only other planet man has yet to personally visit. It is so close to us but suprisingly we know an alarmingly little amount about it, its formation is a scientific mystery and startling enough its leaving us at a rate of 3.8 cm a year. Throughout the moons life it has moved about 1 million meters farther away from earth than where it formed. Now if the moon is already leaving how much more help would it actually need?

Intro draft (unfinished)

Stealing the Moon: A How to Guide

The moon has been a fixture in our solar system for approximately 3 billion years scarred with tens of thousands of meteorite impacts not obscured in the least by its nonexistent atmosphere. The moon experiences extreme temperatures ranging from +110 degrees to -180 degrees Celsius a mere 384,400 km from Earth. The Moons mass makes it one of the largest moons in the solar system in comparison with the planet it orbits, almost making Earth and the moon a double planet. The moons mass also effects the oceans of the Earth by causing a pull on all of the water on one side of the Earth and causing an equal and opposite swell on the other side. The Moon orbits the earth once every month and its rotation keeps one of its side facing the Earth and making it so the other side, the dark side, is never seen. The orbit of the Moon is not an exact circle so every year much of the earths rotaional enery is wasted sending the moon into an orbit about 3.8 cm higher. Throughout the moons life it has moved an estimated 11.4 billion cm farther away from earth than where it formed. Now if the moon is already leaving how much more help would it actually need?

The man who sold the moon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671578634/103-3007987-1336622?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance

the man who sold the moon
i wonder if he has to steal it...

Space 1999http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/224641

episode breakaway, they blast the moon out of orbit

now, where to find it to watch it...

http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/break99.html

Outline

Stealing the Moon: A How to Guide
I. Intro
>A.Moons effect on evolution
>B.Moons effect on people
>C.Moons effect on the sciences
>D.What if it was never there?
>E.What if it just up and left?
II. The Moon
>A. Mass
>B.Gravitaional pull from the earth
>C. Orbital speed
>D. How its leaving own.
III.Others who have tried
>A. Project Sunsplash
>B. Space 1999
>>a.Problems with the math
>C. Continue with the bad math idea
IV.Actual math
>A. Sir Isaac Newton
>>a. the Theory of Gravity
>>b. Gravitational force and center of mass bettween earth and the moon
>B. Power of nuclear weapons
>C. Gravity, rotation and Orbital Speed revisited
V.How To
>A. How To
>>a. Needed exposives
>>b. Where in rotation to do it
>>c.problem with mass of explosives
>>d.affect on earth
VI.Conclusion
>A.Is it impossible?
>B.In the future?
>C.Could it be a good idea?
>D.Maybe if applied to other large space objects...

Work So Far

My research has gotten harder and harder as I continue to delve into the bottomless pit of the internet. The biggest problem so far has been avoiding the absolutely vast amount of sites involving Space: 1999 because evedentally in one of their episodes they stole, the moon... yeah it bites. So far the best wesite i've come across was a link on the site "Hard @$$ Physics" and was to the site that showed the final project of Project: Sunsplash, a report on the various ways to flng the Earth into the sun... to make a splash. Other than that site I have bookamarked many sites on physics and the moon and its orbits.
I origionally thought that I woul be able to find out how big a bomb and a cost it would take to steal the moon but I have already learned that it would take at least a 500,000 megaton bomb, and those certaintly don't exsist so everything is now purely hypothetical. Even so that knowledge opens up the doors to new possibities. Ms. Goode has already said that I can use... abstract... "research" sources like old television shows and sites made by crazy people.
Wish me luck!

We Like Da Moon

heres a site about the moon...
because it is good to us...

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

more sources!

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Centrifugal/centri.html
stuff on moons orbit
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newtongrav.html
omg, many physics stuff on gravity

I FOUND ONE!!!!

I found another site!!!
I'm not gonna give up that easy!!!

http://kosmoi.com/Science/Earth/Moon

Primary Source

I'm having magor trouble with this topic and am loosing much of my gusto.
I'm considering changing subjects because resources have kind of dried up....

for a primary source I could talk with Mr. Dupree (?spelling?), he's the head astronomer guy over at the Agnes Scott obsevatory.

Please comment with other research Ideas, I think I've hit a dead end