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Moon's strange bulge explained

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An eccentric orbit in the Moon's distant past might be responsible for the mysterious bulge around its middle, scientists say.

The excess material around the lunar equator has been known since 1799 when French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace first noticed it. The reason, however, has been a mystery until now.

The Moon's peculiar shape can be explained if the satellite moved in an eccentric oval-shaped orbit 100 million years after its violent formation, when the satellite hadn't yet solidified, the researchers say.
I'm sure you were all wondering.

Now if only Science could get to work explaning the strange bulge around my middle...
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Have they explained David Bowie's bulge in LABYRINTH yet? Because that thing has puzzled me since I was a child.
It puzzled me, too. David Bowie, that is. I love that movie.

Cool about the Moon's bulge, too.
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So is the bulge around the middle or a little bit lower? And is the moon a guy or a girl? Cause if it's a guy, and the bulge is lower, I might have an alternative explanation.
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They do talk about the man in the moon...
I'd like to go on record as saying that I was not making a joke about my "junk" I was making a fat joke about myself. Honestly I'm shocked--shocked I tell you that you people would turn it dirty.
Why are you so shocked? I never claimed to be pure and innocent.
i misread the title I thought it said "MOM'S strange buldge explained" I thought it was going to be one of those "I didnt know I was pregnant" stories
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Originally Posted by chersolly
Have they explained David Bowie's bulge in LABYRINTH yet? Because that thing has puzzled me since I was a child.

Dude, he had to have some place to store those nifty little crystal balls...
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And craven, I misread the title, too, and was picturing a mother with a codpiece.
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Oh goodness....I was thinking Rev Sun Yung Moon...that IS his name right??? And that led to me thinking of Kim Jong II because I always thought he had a bulgy forehead. Yeah...onto David Bowie. When I was 17 my friend and i had a mad crush on him, and watched labyrinth often....we also took photos of scenes in the movie The Hunger.

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There's a codpiece on the moon's middle? Middle what?
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