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Hydrostatic equilibrium

This article claims the Moon is in hydrostatic equilibrium. However, the article List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System claims that it once was but no longer is. Seems to me that only one of these statements can be correct. Shinigami27 (talk) 22:53, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the Moon departs from hydrostatic equilibrium.[1] But then so does the Earth. Praemonitus (talk) 01:49, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW - that statement in the other article is tagged as needing a citation (i.e., does not have a reference to support it) - Special-T (talk) 12:20, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I tried to address that. Thanks for pointing it out. I tried to modify the statement in this article to match. Will that work? Praemonitus (talk) 13:17, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request (minor typo)

Under the heading 'Surface conditions' in the 'Physical characteristics' there is the sentence: "The exposed surfaces of spacecraft are considered unlikely to harbor bacterial spoors after just one lunar orbit." 'spoors' should definitely be 'spores', could someone with edit permissions please fix? 2601:281:8280:21F0:A107:C74B:EA4A:D2DA (talk) 23:22, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]