In this page i analyze the action performed by Duke during the Apollo 16 Mission.
A simple analysis of the movie can prove that the experiment is real and that any hoax supporter is wrong.
In the movie, you can see a rock and a stony flying on the same trajectory, and falling slower than we are used to see on the earth.
Is it a fake? Was it filmed on Earth and then was the movie slowed down? Impossible, if u speed up the movie Duke moves very unnaturally.
Was the rocke hanged to a wire? possible, was the dust hanged too? Impossible.
From my analyses you see that the rock and the dust fly on a perfect parabola.
A first I have downloaded the movie, you can see it at this link:
Duke performs some acrobatic juggling
I have then captured the frames from the instant when the rock leaves the showel, to the instant when Duke grab it for the first time.
Here are some of the pictures:
I have then recorded, frame by frame the position of the rock and coarsly the position of the dust, then using the frame rate indicated in the MOV file (15FPS) i have done the following 3 diagrams:
Altitude vs downrange
Downrange vs time
Altitude vs time
The equations in the last diagram shows a vertical acceleration smaller than the moon gravity, but for sure more compatible with the moon than with the earth. The error can be due to a wrong initial altitude extimation (I supposed 1.5 meters) or by a wrong FPS indication.
We can then asses that the rock and the dust are falling because gravity only and they are not slowed down by air drag. Air drag would affect the dust and not the stone. More over they fall down slowly just because Moon gravity is low.
