Gravity gradient preliminary investigations, part 2: Lunar tidal gravity gradients and stresses (exhibit C)

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Jan 1971

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1971goi..rept.....h&link_type=abstract

Final Report General Oceanology, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

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Gravity Gradiometers, Lunar Gravitational Effects, Tides, Correlation, Crustal Fractures, Moonquakes

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Preliminary analysis of the gravity gradients associated with gravity tides on the moon caused by the earth indicates that the relative changes in the gradients are very irregular, and large, and about 15 times greater than those experienced on earth. Thus gradients, in preference to gravity tides themselves, may well be an important key in correlating tide effects with lunar transient events and moonquakes, and also in determining triggering mechanisms for crustal movement and faulting. Preliminary analysis of lunar crustal stresses and strains caused by lunar gravity tides indicates that these factors may be more direct causative agents or triggering mechanisms. In particular, the cubic dilation undergoes relatively large changes and is about 11 times greater on the moon than on earth. Thus it should be correspondingly more important.

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