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Re:The Damage to Lunar Orbiting Spacecraft Caused by the Eje... by kabdib on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:54PM (#36052300)
My understanding was that those variations in gravity ("mascons") rendered stable lunar orbits next to impossible. On Apollo missions, orbits degraded by many kilometers over the course of just a few days.
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Re:The Damage to Lunar Orbiting Spacecraft Caused by the Eje... by neffo on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:26AM (#36054400)
Interestingly, a researcher looking for probable impact sites found Apollo 11's ascent module could potentially still be in orbit. (Though, it's probably not.)

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-apollo-ascent-stage-orbiting-m...

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