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To: TigerPaw who wrote (401)	9/15/1999 1:19:00 AM
From: Booney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Excellent question. Of course, we are only able to accurately measure accumulation of meteoric and cosmic "dust" (for lack of a better word) entering the earth's atmosphere via satellite and land-based measurement stations. We can only estimate similarly the moon's atmospheric accumulation. The statistics you question, however, are not really up for discussion. Anyone familiar with the issue readily admits we cannot account for the de minimus amount of foreign dust on the moon and on the earth other than to assume that either the earth (and moon) is young or the dust began accumulating at present rates only a short time ago (10000 to 15000 years). Either way, it is merely the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of an interesting issue. Such a powerful issue, in fact, as to influence the position of even great United States space program scientists like Dr. Wernher Von Braun, who stated (all the way back in 1974, during the heyday of evolutionary influence in public classrooms), "It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than ... chance." Sounds a little like Kansas today, doesn't it?