W oodbridge Volume 5 ▪ Issue 47 ▪ Number 46
LIFE
Your Life. Your Community. Your News.
July ▪ 2015
July
Woodbridge LIFE was published a bit early this month so all of the hardworking staff have a chance to enjoy the Fourth of July weekend. Happy Independence Day, America! Look for highlights of June’s Garden Tour and the many beautifully landscaped yards visited by tourgoers in today’s edition. We get our news from YOU! If you know of someone or something special that happened (or will happen) in Woodbridge, let us know. The purpose of this newspaper is to celebrate residents’ accomplishments and the activities going on in our community.
THE MOON HOW'D THAT GET THERE?
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Bedford and Hancock . . . 7 Bridge Scores . . . . . . . . 12 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Events and Tours . . . . . . . 8 Garden Tasks . . . . . . . . 19 Groups and Clubs . . . . . . 6 Where in the World . . . . . 38
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WBL photo by Volker Moerbitz. Article by Mike Spence, using sources including Natural History Museum U.K., NASA and NASA Moon Geology Report and Journal of Natural Geoscience.
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ur moon, Luna as named by the Romans, has been circling earth for a good long time. How the moon arrived, was made or evolved has been the subject of many theories, guesses, superstitions and religious beliefs. As our technology increased, so did our ability to understand the moon and its history. The moon walks by our astronauts brought back many bits and pieces from the moon for study here on earth. They also made scientific measurements of everything they thought might be useful. They left instruments on the moon’s surface that continued to send data back to earth. After nearly 50 years of data collection and analysis, the origin of the moon seems a bit clearer. One theory of the moon’s origin popular in the ‘60s suggested that the earth and the moon were once just one big blob of planetary building blocks. The blob was a bit unstable and perhaps not as “round” as it should be. A piece of the blob broke off and became the moon. If you’re thinking a “lava lamp,” you’ve got the mental picture. The moon rocks were found to contain material similar to earth rocks but were richer in refractory elements, those created by high temperatures. Some moon rocks are older than the oldest rocks so far discovered on earth. The earth has an iron core, the moon does not. This theory is losing steam. Another theory from the ‘60s suggests the moon was a “rogue” planet and it was simply captured by earth’s gravity as it passed by. If this theory is correct, why do moon rocks show signs of impact fracturing? Considering gravity and the attraction of such large bodies to one another, the capture needed a perfect combination of
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