Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:03:56 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
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On 5/31/2013 6:58 PM, mark wrote:
> Using high-resolution gravity data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and
> Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, researchers at MIT and Purdue
> University have mapped the structure of several lunar mascons and found
> that their gravitational fields resemble a bull's-eye pattern: a center of
> strong, or positive, gravity surrounded by alternating rings of negative
> and positive gravity.

"Negative and positive gravity"????  What the hell is "negative
gravity"??  I'm surprised that got through in an MIT publication.

I suspect that they meant increasing and decreasing levels of
attraction, not negative gravity.

-- Mike B.