From: Nick Balaskas <Nikolaos.nul>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:26:12 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Archived: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:36:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Transient Lunar Phenomena


>From: Terry Colvin <fortean1.nul>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>,
>Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:48:54 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Transient Lunar Phenomena


>Mysterious Moon Flashes Signs Of 'Last Gasps'?
>from National Geographic News

>http://snipr.com/d09is

>Astronomer Arlin Crotts is trying to solve a 400-year-old
>puzzle. Ever since the invention of the telescope, said the
>Columbia University astrophysicist, observers around the world
>have occasionally watched small areas of the moon brighten or
>'turn fuzzy'. Sometimes they even turn reddish.

>Because the bright patches are ephemeral, lasting only a few
>minutes, these events have come to be known as transient lunar
>phenomena, or TLPs. "About 1,500 of these have been reported,"
>Crotts said.

>Astronomers already know they're not meteorite impacts. Those
>produce brighter, briefer flashes as the meteorite hits the
>surface and vaporizes. But nobody yet knows what TLPs are - or
>even whether they truly exist.

<snip>


Hi Everyone!

Within the next year or two the mystery of TLPS will not be a
mystery anymore, at least to the public who are often the last
to learn the truth about anything.

Once NASA's Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter joins Europe's SMART-1;
Japan's Kaguya (Selene) - and its two tiny hitchhiker probes;
India's Chandrayan-1 and China's Change-1 - intentionally
crashed on the Moon at the beginning of this month creating its
own TLP event - for the first time the public will be able to
closely examine these 1500 TLP sites on the Moon at a resolution
never before achieved with an orbiting spacecraft. *

The U.S. Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter - which carries the names
of many space enthusiasts, including some from this List - will
also put an end to the post Apollo era belief that NASA faked
the manned lunar landings since it will be able to see not only
the landing sites and actual hardware but even the tracks made
by the lunar rovers driven for kilometers by U.S. astronauts.

There are even well advanced plans by private groups such as
Odyssey Moon - which has much involvement by the Canadian space
industry but also participation by Canadians, including many
colleagues from York University where I work - to place robotic
rovers on the Moon that will be capable of checking out nearby
TLP and Apollo landing sites.

* Members of Odyssey Moon are currently working with NASA in
reprocessing the massive numbers of images taken by its five
Lunar Orbiters (1966-1967) that were used to select safe sites
for the six Apollo manned lunar landings. The public only got to
see the much lower resolution versions of these images of the
surface of the Moon partly because of the limitations of the
computer technology at the time but also because the U.S. did
not want to reveal to the rest of the world just how small
things it could detect with its space probes and spy satellites
over 4 decades ago.


Nick Balaskas



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