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   trakar to All   
   Re: Lunar lavatubes   
   11 Jul 03 03:00:42   
   
   From: trakar@comcast.net   
      
   On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 23:06:33 GMT, Thomas Billings    
   wrote:   
      
   >This correlates strongly with the difference between the calculated   
   >largest size for lunar lavatubes, based soley on gravity differences   
   >(about 385 meters in diameter, by Horz, 1988, in ' Lunar Bases and Space   
   >Actvities of the 21st Century') and the search of lunar photo   
   >observations by Coombs and Hawke, which indicated at least one tube of   
   >1050 meters diameter, and several kilometers in length, with many larger   
   >than 385 meters diameter.   
      
   Well that answers part of my question, how conclusive is this data ?   
   Sounds like an interesting place to send a rover. Do you have any   
   links that list coordinates? ISTR, from ancient cobwebs that there   
   were a few suspected tubes near or in the northern polar region.   
      
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