• Question: What are your thought's on the hollow moon theory?

    Asked by space guy to Anne, Beth, COLFlight, Jon, Tom on 9 Oct 2015.
    • Photo: Jonathan Scott

      Jonathan Scott answered on 9 Oct 2015:

      There is no scientific evidence for it, so it cannot be refereed to as a theory. As the moon creates strong gravitational effects on Earth, and gravitational effects are due to mass, if the moon is hollow, then the crust/surface material of the moon would have to be very, very, very dense to produce the gravitational effects it does – a crust that dense is very, very, very unlikely.

    • Photo: Columbus Flight Directors

      Columbus Flight Directors answered on 10 Oct 2015:

      Simon:
      Hey space guy,
      I didnt even know the theory before I looked it up just now on Wikipedia. But I guess I would go with Jon’s response below!

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