Lunation
- SteveShaw
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Fascinating to see the moon "gyrate" so that we see quite a bit of "the other side." It's beautful - I wish it were a bit slower though.
Steve
Steve
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
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- Cynth
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That really is going fast . The wobble seems a little worrisome.
If anyone here is interested in doing their bit for astronomy, you might be interested in this website:
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top
They are studying tasks, such as marking craters, which might be able to be done by careful volunteers, thus releasing highly trained people to do things other people can't do. I think there isn't a real project going at the moment, but you can still do some things and a new project is going to be starting apparently. I did it for awhile and it was really sort of fun. You can learn as much as you want.
If anyone here is interested in doing their bit for astronomy, you might be interested in this website:
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top
They are studying tasks, such as marking craters, which might be able to be done by careful volunteers, thus releasing highly trained people to do things other people can't do. I think there isn't a real project going at the moment, but you can still do some things and a new project is going to be starting apparently. I did it for awhile and it was really sort of fun. You can learn as much as you want.
Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium. ~ Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence.----Seneca
- SteveShaw
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(Thread turns heavy in that inevitable way ): Are you saying that the moon is in free-fall? If so, is the earth in free-fall too to an observer on the moon? I thought the earth and moon were a system with a common centre of gravity...Darwin wrote:It does, but by the time it arrives, it has overshot its mark.amar wrote:why doesn't that big ball ever fall down?
Steve (biologist...)
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!