Re: Terraforming the Moon

From: Rodney Kelp (Rodneykelp605_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:36:16 -0500

This probably happened naturally as it did on every other large body but
without a magnetic field to deflect solar flares an atmosphere will get
blown away in time.
Titan is far enough away not to feel solar flares as much as the moon or
mars.

. So our moon too should be able to
> hold on to an atmosphere .

What we need to do is to bring icy comets
> from the oort cloud and Saturn's rings and let them slow down so they
> settle gently on the surface .The water will soon evaporate and form
> oceans and then we can colonize it .
>
>
> 

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