Could you people tell me some interesting things about the phases of the moon?

Question

They have to be cool and very intelligent facts.

Answer 1

http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonphase/ This isn't link looked for but part on misconception is interesting. There is another site that explains amount of moon illuminated. The moon is always there causing high and opposite low tides, and amount of moon we can see is not main reason for these events. Find it interesting how before zillions of dollars in scientific equipment someones observation created 30 day cycle, and how this was adopted into calender.

Answer 2

Indian Calendar - An Introduction

The Western calendar is based on the sun, in which a year is the time required for the earth to complete one orbit around the sun. This precisely measures 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 46 seconds.

The Indian calender is ingeniously based on both the sun and the moon; it uses a solar year but divides it into 12 lunar months. A lunar month is precisely 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes and 3 seconds long. Twelve such months constitute a lunar year of 354 days 8 hours 48 minutes and 36 seconds. To help the lunar months coincide with the solar year, the practice of inserting an intercalary (extra) month arose. So 60 solar months = 62 lunar months. Hence an extra month, called the 'Adhik Mas', is inserted every 30 months i.e. every 2 ½ years.

Answer 3

No but you can win some bar bets by saying that more than 50% of the Moon is visible from the Earth because it's rotation oscillates.

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Answer 4

Any Nurse will tell you to beware of the full moon, especially those who work in the ER or Labor and Delivery.

Answer 5

A lunar eclipse can only occur during full moon and a solar eclipse can only occur during a new (no) moon.

Answer 6

Without the moon there would be no river or ocean tides,i know that.

Answer 7

nope