If you are standing on any other Planet what is up and what is down? What determines up and down anyway. Who determined direction? If you go far enough West do you start to go East? We say out West in the United States when we talk about California. What do Hawaiians call California? East or a long way West?
2006-08-14 14:41:30 · 10 answers · asked by happylife22842 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
the moon has the same rotation as the earth so the poles are the same, I do not know if it has a magnetic pole or if the north star is in the same place. I don't think up and down mean anything except in reference to local gravity, East and west on the planet is are relative terms based on the Greenwich Meridian and you measure east and west through 180 degrees to the date line. But I find the common usage confusing also. Is China still the far east If you are in Hawaii or Australia? A very good question!
2006-08-14 14:54:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as what is north and south that has to do with the magnetism of the poles. East on your right when facing North and West is on your left.
We call California out west because our culture came from the east and moved "out west" that's why we call East back east, because it's back where most people came form.
2006-08-14 14:52:34 · answer #2 · answered by Dane_62 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question belongs in the "Science and Math" section, under "Astronomy and Space".
You might want to ask how "Due Galactic North" and "Due Galactic South" are determined. This question sounds related to those topics. I just don't know enough about this topic, to give you a good answer.
Who knows, maybe you will get an answer from Dr. Hawking!!! That would be kind of cool.
2006-08-14 14:54:26 · answer #3 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess that North & South would be determined by the poles, but then the moon doesn't rotate so...are there poles? And then which would be North and which South? Would it be worthwile to wear a wristwatch on the moon if the sun never sets? Wait, these are supposed to be answers, shoot! see what you started!
2006-08-14 14:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by fra_bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up and down are determined by gravity. North and south are determined by magnetic poles.
2006-08-14 14:51:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
north is still the celestial north pole, and once oriented, south is easy to figure. there is no magnetic north, though, as the moon has no magnetosphere.
2006-08-14 14:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by WHITE TRASH ARMENIAN 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a Science question, not a Religion & Spirituality question.
2006-08-14 14:48:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good questions. I honestly do not know.
2006-08-14 14:47:15 · answer #8 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dont know never been there.
2006-08-14 14:49:50 · answer #9 · answered by timjim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is about relativity.
2006-08-14 14:46:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋