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by bubbliiiiiiii » Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:48 am
Again I am no expert but will try to put forth my explanation. :)

Passage suggests that negative gravity is formed by a mass deficit. However, in the past, such deficit was compensated by the substances from core because the surface was elastic. In recent times, such elasticity was lessened, prohibiting the rising of substances from mantle.

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by mcdesty » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:05 pm
When a large body strikes a planet or moon, material is ejected, thereby creating a hole in the planet and a local deficit of mass. This deficit shows up as a gravity anomaly:the removal of material that has been ejected to make the hole results in an area in slightly lower gravity than surrounding areas. One would therefore expect that all of the large multi-ring impact basins on the surface of earth's moon would show such negative gravity anomalies, since they are, essentially, large holes in lunar surface. Yet data collected in 1994 by the Clemenstine spacecraft show that manyof these Clementine basins have no anomalously low gravity and some even have anomalously high gravity. Scientists speculate that early in lunar history, when large impactors struck the moon's surface, causing millions of cubic kilometers of crustal debris to be ejected, denser material from the moon's mantle rose up beneath the impactors almost immediately, compensating for the ejected material and thus leaving no gravity anomaly in the resulting basin. Later, however, as moon grew cooler and less elastic, rebound from large impactors would have been only partial and incomplete. Thus today such gravitational compensation probably would not occur: the outer layer of moon is too cold and stiff.


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