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Thread: The Moon's Orbit will be Destablized by TransOrbital
# 16899 byRyan Zelnio on Sept. 20, 2002, 12:14 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
Was purusing nasa site and came upon "DESTINATION
MOON: A History of the Lunar Orbiter Program" which
had alot of weights and clear desciptions of what
happened to many of the lunar sats
(http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/TM-3487/app-c.htm).
Found that I missed the lunar observer series so they
are now added to the list. Following is the revised
list with all the weights now in, though I am still
unable to find the dry mass of the apollo 14-17 parts
that were left behind. Not including those we are
looking at 55,325.9 kg of human made stuff now on the
Moon. Let me know if there are any more additions.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/lunarform/landing.html
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/TM-3487/app-c.htm
Russian When Dry Mass (kg) Wet Mass (kg) Notes
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 15 1969 2718
Luna 16 1970 5600
Luna 17 1970 5600
Luna 18 1971 5600
Luna 20 1972 5600
Luna 21 1973 1814 weight includes only lander and
rover
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 270
Lunar Orbiter 1966 386
Surveyor 2 1966 292
Lunar Orbiter 2 1966 385
Lunar Orbiter 3 1966 386
Surveyor 3 1967 281
Lunar Orbiter 4 1967 386
Surveyor 4 1967 283
Lunar Orbiter 5 1967 386
Surveyor 5 1967 281
Surveyor 6 1967 282
Surveyor 7 1967 290
Apollo 11 1969 2034
Apollo 12 1969 2211
Apollo 14 1971 "10,334" 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
Apollo 15 1971 "11,463"
Apollo 16 1972 "11,457"
Apollo 16 subsatellite 1972 36
Apollo 17 1972 "11,463"
Lunar Prospector 1998 126
Total 55325.9