My name is Alan Bajandas, a freelancer with Scientific American Magazine. I was reading this entry–Scientific American also covered the liquid-lens telescope–and thought that the following article might also be of interest. It was published today online and covers a recent study correlating the long-disparaged reports of ‘lunar transients’ to locations pinpointed to emit radioactive radon 222 gas. I thought this could make for some interesting fodder, however you happen to come down on the study.
We invite you to link to the article (see URL below), or even to reprint—whatever you might find useful.
Article Title: Lunar “UFOs” May Be Volcanic Belches
Summary: Mysterious lunar flashes match up geographically with puffs of radon gas
URL:
http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=699CE1CC-E7F2-99DF-3F7ED3707CAE0277&chanID=sa003&ec=ab178_0626

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