The Moon's Orbit will be Destablized by TransOrbital

>
> I just thought of an amusing question.
>
> How much man-made stuff is on the Moon ? (in
> kilograms)
>
> Starting with Lunik-2 in 1959, with all the Soviet
> Luna
> probes (hard and soft landers), Rangers, Lunar
> Orbiters,
> Surveyors, Apollo LEMS, and S-IVbs, it must be in
> the
> range of a few tons.
>
> It would be interesting for somebody to keep a
> tally. I
> wonder if the UN keeps track of it, probably not.
>
> =====
>
> What is the weight of meteoritic material which
> accumulates on the Moon each day/year ? There is
> probably some data on that somewhere.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles F. Radley
>
You peeked my interest so i did a quick check of nasa
to find the info and here is what i came up, this is
not a complete listing, unable to get the data for all
of the surveyors and the dry mass of the apollo 14-17
descent stages (which were the only part left behind).
Anyhow, here are my findings. I would be interested
to see if the completed list if anyone has time to
track down the remaining weights...

Data came from
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/lunarform/landing.html

Russian When Dry Mass (kg)
Luna 2 1959 390.2
Luna 5 1965 1474
Luna 7 1965 1504
Luna 8 1965 1550
Luna 9 1966 1580
Luna 13 1966 1700
Luna 16 1970 5600
Luna 17 1970 5600
Luna 18 1971 5600
Luna 20 1972 5600
Luna 21 1973 4850
Luna 23 1974 5600
Luna 24 1976 4800

US
Ranger 6 1964 381
Ranger 7 1964 365.7
Ranger 8 1965 367
Ranger 9 1965 367
Surveyor 1 1966
Surveyor 2 1966 292
Surveyor 3 1967
Surveyor 4 1967 283
Surveyor 5 1967
Surveyor 6 1967
Surveyor 7 1967
Apollo 11 1969 2034
Apollo 12 1969 2211
Apollo 14 1971 "10,334"
Apollo 15 1971 "11,463"
Apollo 16 1972 "11,457"
Apollo 17 1972 "11,463"

Apollo weights are only for descent stage dry mass
except for apollo 14 and on in which nasa archives did
not separate out dry mass of descent stage