{"id":31503,"date":"2012-11-26T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/cratered.html"},"modified":"2014-03-12T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:22:10","slug":"cratered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/cratered.html","title":{"rendered":"Cratered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s vaguely disturbing but also remarkably cool to realize that the universe is not a fixed mechanical clockwork, but that things in it <i>change<\/i> over time. Such as &#8230; craters on the moon &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108952536790629690817'>Philip Plait<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Congratulations! It&#39;s a bouncing baby crater<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>Say hello the Moon&#39;s youngest known natural crater: this unnamed impact site is just 10 meters across, seen here in a picture taken in 2009 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The thing is, the crater <i>wasn&#39;t<\/i> in a picture taken of the same area during Apollo 15 in 1971&#8230; meaning this crater is no more than 41 years old!<\/p>\n<p>Read all about it:\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2012\/11\/26\/fresh_lunar_impact_crater_revealed_in_new_photo_by_nasa_probe.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\">http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2012\/11\/26\/fresh_lunar_impact_crater_revealed_in_new_photo_by_nasa_probe.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/108952536790629690817\/albums\/5815163574570468801\/5815163582588137858'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/--HUWWQaFAFQ\/ULOcd-L0MYI\/AAAAAAAATVU\/a6fIwf8siPU\/lro_youngestcrater.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Dd95sXPucUc' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s vaguely disturbing but also remarkably cool to realize that the universe is not a fixed mechanical clockwork, but that things in it change over time. Such as &#8230; craters on the moon &#8230; Reshared post from +Philip Plait Congratulations! It&#39;s a bouncing baby crater! Say hello the Moon&#39;s youngest known natural crater: this unnamed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/cratered.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cratered&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10128,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/28\/crater_lake.html","url_meta":{"origin":31503,"position":0},"title":"Crater Lake","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Aug-06 9:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"We took several vacations when I was a youth to the Crater Lake area (we stayed at nearby and far-less-interesting Diamond Lake). 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