Moon shrinking: 10,000 cracks, 148 feet

What BBN said about it

1. 

   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe claim under review: the moon is shrinking. Ten thousand cracks on its surface show by how much, Space.com reports.

2. 

   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorShrinking. I knew it. The one thing in the sky I trusted to stay the same size.

3. 

   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe study estimates the radius has shrunk by about forty-five meters, which is one hundred forty-eight feet.

4. 

   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResearchers found more than ten thousand young faults in orbiter images.

5. 

   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA hundred and forty-eight feet. That's a whole cricket pitch and a bit, gone off the edge.

6. 

   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOver four hundred to eight hundred million years.

7. 

   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRight. So it's been at it for ages and only now do we hear.

8. 

   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHere's the catch. The study lead says the interior keeps cooling and contracting, so existing faults should grow and new ones should form.

9. 

   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorAnd some proposed Artemis landing sites sit near active fault zones.

10. 

    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo you land on a cracked moon that's still cracking. Wonderful. I'd park somewhere else, personally.

11. 

    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorCeremonial rating: Mildly Bonkers.

12. 

    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt lost a hundred and forty-eight feet of radius over hundreds of millions of years, and the complaint is only now being filed.