would a body decompose on the moon?
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If you do die in space, your body will not decompose in the normal way, since there is no oxygen. If you were near a source of heat, your body would mummify; if you were not, it would freeze. If your body was sealed in a space suit, it would decompose, but only for as long as the oxygen lasted.
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Fortunately, Earth retains heat fairly well, so humans wouldn't freeze instantly. Life would get much more difficult immediately, though. ... Without the Sun's rays, all photosynthesis on Earth would stop. All plants would die and, eventually, all animals that rely on plants for food — including humans — would die, too.
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Typically placed 6ft down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, eight to twelve years to completely decompose into a skeleton. Now if placed in a coffin, it may take many more years, depending on the type of wood used for the coffin. For example, solid Oak will slow down the process.
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90 seconds after exposure, you'll die from asphyxiation. It's also very cold in space. You'll eventually freeze solid. Depending on where you are in space, this will take 12-26 hours, but if you're close to a star, you'll be burnt to a crisp instead.
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When buried six feet down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, an unembalmed adult normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. However if placed in a coffin the body can take many years longer, depending on type of wood used. For example a solid oak coffin will hughly slow down the process.
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When buried six feet down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, an unembalmed adult normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. However if placed in a coffin the body can take many years longer, depending on type of wood used. For example a solid oak coffin will highly slow down the process.
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To date, the late scientist Eugene Shoemaker is still the only person whose remains have been sent to the Moon. Even casual stargazers are likely to recognize Shoemaker's name from the famed Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (which had broken into fragments) that impacted Jupiter in 1994.
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Mass, density and gravity The moon's mass is 7.35 x 1022 kg, about 1.2 percent of Earth's mass. Put another way, Earth weighs 81 times more than the moon. The moon's density is 3.34 grams per cubic centimeter (3.34 g/cm3).
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In my neighborhood: About two months, except if it is winter, then 6 months. In cold weather climates it could take decades. There are bodies at the top of mount Everest that have been decomposing for over twenty years.
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On the moon, which has no protective atmosphere, temperatures can range from 121 degrees Celsius in the sun (250 degrees Fahrenheit) to negative 157 degrees Celsius in the shade (negative 250 degrees Fahrenheit).
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The moon's acceleration due to gravity is 1/6 of that of Earth. Thus, a person weighs 6 times more on Earth than the moon. This person will have a weight of 80 kg x 9.8 m/s^2 = 784 N on Earth and 130.7 N on the moon.
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On the Moon itself or on any other planets apart from Earth, currently no law exists. If we settle on the Moon and or Planet Mars for example, such laws must be established to ensure people's rights. Again, that can not be done unless ownership rights are addressed and settled.
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It can take between eight and twelve years for an unembalmed body buried six feet down, to decompose to a skeleton. ... An embalmed body may take a little longer to decompose when it is buried, but embalming cannot prevent the process from happening indefinitely.
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Lunar water is water that is present on the Moon. ... However, scientists have conjectured since the 1960s that water ice could survive in cold, permanently shadowed craters at the Moon's poles. Water molecules are also detected in the thin layer of gases above the lunar surface.
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When buried six feet down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, an unembalmed adult normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. However if placed in a coffin the body can take many years longer, depending on type of wood used.
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The putrefaction of flesh produces gases, primarily in the chest and gut, that inflate a corpse like a balloon. In warm, shallow water, decomposition works quickly, surfacing a corpse within two or three days. But cold water slows decay, and people who drown in deep lakes, 30 metres or below, may never surface.
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Corpses that have a watery grave will begin to float within a week's time. Here's why: The density of the human body is similar to the density of water, and what keeps us floating--other than the dog paddle--is the air in our lungs. A corpse begins to sink as the air in its lungs is replaced by water.