Lunar bauxite busted
For a few months now, prompted by a comment on one of my blog posts from fellow geoblogger Bryan, I've been listening to the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast. It's pretty darned good. Last week, the team interviewed Seth Shostak, senior astronomer for SETI, who made an offhand statement that there was "plenty of bauxite" on the Moon. Considering that the moon's anorthosite has plenty of aluminosilicate minerals, but none of the tropical rains required to produce a secondary concentration of gibbsite, bohemite, and diaspore, a.k.a. bauxite, I wrote in to compliment the show in general but correct this one small tidbit. This week on the show, they acknowledge my correction, though (of course) they mis-pronounce my name. It starts at 25:35 into the podcast. Ah well -- my own little cross to bear. Glad to help advance human understanding of geological processes!
Labels: astronomy, minerals, moon, ore, podcasts and vodcasts, science and society
2 Comments:
You get two coolness points, Amigo. They should have known better. That's what they get for ignoring Jack Schmitt, who definitely would have known anorthosite from sedimentary formations.
Hey, and come to think of it, I used to go to NVCC and grew up near Lake Barcroft. That's where I watched Admiral Shepard take his flight on TV (at the tender age of four).
Congrats, I just listened to the episode.
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