Prescence of our Moon...?
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There is something to this.  The net angular momentum of the Earth-Moon system is such that it is fairly stable to the small torques introduced by other planets.  For instance, the orientation of Mars' rotational axis is believed to have changed dramatically over time.  This is shown with numerical models. \n\nThe moon is moving farther away from the earth.  Angular momentum  is transfered by tides.  The tidal bulge of the Earth remains oriented towards the moon.  The earth rotates under this bulge and drags it forward a bit. The gravity of the bulge itself then pulls the moon ahead in its orbit some.  The net effect is the earth's rotation slows, and moon moves to a slightly larger orbit.\n\nAt some point, the Moon's orbital period will be the same length as the Earth's rotational period and the Earth and moon will be tidally locked to one another. \n\nRegardless, the entire system will still have a lot of angular momentum and the Earth will be fairly immune to significant changes to the obliquity of its rotation.
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Dec 31 3:12 (GMT) Greenwhich mean time was a new moon. That would be sometime in the afternoon on Dec 30 in CA.\n\nhttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/TYPE/moonphase.html
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It's new moon.... actually right now it's only 1% full. Wait till tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, beautiful sight, a thin sliver... gorgeous. Enjoy!
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No and Yes.\n\nThe moon is orbiting the Earth more slowly than the Earth is rotating.  It falls behind a little every day.  About 56 minutes behind.  So if tonight the Moon rises over the mountains at 8:00pm, tomorrow it will rise over the mountains at 8:56pm.  (thats the No)\n\nIn pretty much the same place. (There's your Yes)
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The moon although is a sphere, but it is so far away that it appear a flat round disk. there is nothing strange about this and if people are not educated that moon is a spherical rock, they'd probably think it's a round flat disk.\n\nBut for me, I see it as a hole in the ceiling.
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July 11 at  03:02, Universal Time.\n\nThere's a table of the moon's phases on the Web site of the United States Naval Observatory:\n\nhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html
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That has happened for the past week, right? Well, when the moon is behind the earth relatively to the sun, it's seen as full; but along the next 2 weeks the moon is going to make her way in the direction of the sun, so when it's halfway it's seen half-illuminated (in the half looking to the sun), in broad daylight... that's the phase "last quarter moon". Slowly day by day you'll notice the moon gets thinners and thinner, and closer to the sun... until one day you don't see it - that's because she's very near the sun from where we stand - and we see her "behind" which is not illuminated.
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I know how it will look.  The same side of the moon always faces us because its rotation rate and revolution rate are both the same - 27 to 28 days depending on whether you are looking at it from sidereal or solar time (that's technical lingo you can skip over).  But those two rates are tidally locked and there's no reason that would change.  We'll never see the other side from earth. One thing that WILL change is that is has been, and will continue to, slowly move farther away from us every year.  In the distant future it will appear smaller in the sky and will take a longer time to go around us, 30+ days in the future.  This is because conservation of energy and conservation of angular momentum must both be conserved.  I can explain that, but trust me, you don't want me to.
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i think that it is very important in a modern society like ours who might one day venture into the unknown reaches of space to be fully aware of our space surroundings. the moon does look pretty promising for a colony.
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Talking symbolically about the moon!
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QUOTE-----"The photo must be by telescope from the Earth to the moon! If no one can find any recent photos then the moon landings are a massive hoax!"\n\nTo remind u and other readers...we CAN'T see the lunar rover or whatsoever using our telescope on earth.No matter how BIG the telescope is, we still CAN'T see it because of atmospheric blurring.\n\nEven HUBBLE can't see it...because that landing site (flag and all that) is so SMALL.... and MOON is MOVING so fast.\n\nIt's just like trying to see a COIN when you are travelling with an AEROPLANE high in the SKY\n\nDID U GET IT? OR U NEED ME TO REPEAT IT AGAIN?
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There was a full moon out June ll.. what you saw was a reflection (either in water, or a mirror image) of the full moon. Are you into astrology? The war in the sky sounds like a zodiac of sorts. What was involved in the war? (What is going on around you? any turbulence? it's merely a reflection of this..) the reflection thing.. get it? mirror/water.. lol. it's easy! lol
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Look at the moon a lot.\n\n41\n\nDon't forget anything important.
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NO...we know more about the moon than we do of our own OCEANS!!!
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As the Moon moves along its orbit around the Earth its hemisphere toward the sun is fully illuminated.\n\nBut from the Earth we see only the hemisphere that is turned toward us.\n\nThat is, we are not seeing that hemisphere which is fully illuminated by the Sun.\n\nThat is why we see different shapes which are called phases of the moon.\n\nIn new moon day, the moon is in between Sun and Earth, and the moon’s non illuminated hemisphere is toward Earth and in the back ground of Sun’s bright light, the moon is invisible.\n\nWhen Moon is at 90 degree from the Sun, half of the illuminated hemisphere of Moon is visible from Earth. \n \nWhen Moon is at 180 degree from the Sun, full of the illuminated hemisphere of Moon is visible from Earth. We call it as Full Moon.
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You can find the US Naval Observatory list for 2006 phases of the moon here:\nhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html
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I think that this site is really great since it is so visual:\nhttp://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/