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TitleLetter from Thomas Gold to Dr John F Clark, Director of Sciences, Office of Space Science and Applications, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington 25, DC
Date28 January 1964
DescriptionGold is glad that Clark is concerning himself with the problem of electrostatics on the Moon. Discusses a calculation quoted by Clark on ion density on the dark side of the Moon. Conditions would be 'analogous to those in a vacuum tube that possessed no sources of electrons and only had residual radioactivity and the cosmic rays as a source of ionizing radiation'. Notes the complexities in the manner of discharge of an object that is small compared to Debye length. Such phenomena could give problems to the entire lunar programme. As a first step, Gold suggests walking around on dust in a vacuum chamber wearing a space suit.
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