The Randall Carlson
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The Moon's Impossible Lock
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December 24, 2025
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0:53Now PlayingThe moon's rotation is completely locked to its orbital period around Earth.
One-to-one spin-orbit coupling.
This implies the moon's mass isn't distributed radially symmetrical about its center.
The moon should have settled into spherical shape. No coupling between rotation and orbit should exist. But it does. Why hasn't the moon behaved as physics predicts?
Something within the lunar crust is extremely rigid.
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