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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
Looked for one a couple hours ago. 
How about yours?
ETA: From Nine Planets Which is what I've always heard, but that also it's not directly towards the Earth. I'll see if I can dig up something else. |
I can imagine the possibility that irregular, lumpy concentrations of heavy material deep inside the Moon could displace the center of mass diagonally from the geometric center, rather than merely 2km along the geometric long axis of the surface. That could cause the best-fit prolate ellipsoid to be misaligned from the Earth.
Just imagine the possibility that exaggeration of the asphericity gives us something more like a potato than an egg.