So the moon isn't as round as people think it is, and it really takes MIT rocket scientists
to figure it all out:
Despite this knowledge, scientists have been mystified that the Moon's distorted dimensions don't match their predictions, given its current orbit and distance from Earth. The Moon, mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace noted in 1799, is too deformed and too flat.
Scientists tried to develop models of the Moon's early orbit that could explain how the distortions formed, but they always failed-no matter how close they moved the Moon's orbit to the Earth, or how fast they made it spin. No solution matched the Moon's exact dimensions.
Ah, what do you do on your spare time indeed..
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