from our view on earth , with the eclipses etc? Whats the chance of that? Prob sounds like a daft question! I just think surely its a massive co-incidence, too much to be a co-incidence?
2007-04-25 00:23:29 · 7 answers · asked by toptrooper123 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Fookin hell some of the answers you get on here treat you with such contempt.Im aware that thios wont be the case in a few thousand/ million years or whatever.The fact that we are here now and thats the case now makes it even more of a co-incidence .Im also aware that the sun is alot larger than the moon (doh). Jeeps man.
2007-04-25 00:43:40 · update #1
wow, I never thought about that before...great question, unfortunately I dont have the answer...
2007-04-25 00:30:54 · answer #1 · answered by alix_xander 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What does it mean for something to be too much of a coincidence? The fact that they appear similar in size (and this changes a little depending on whether we're near perihelion or aphelion) doesn't violate any preconception we have, and if it did, it would be our preconception that would have to change. An inhabited planet with a smaller moon could watch spectacular ring-shaped solar eclipses, and a planet with a larger moon could experience a kind of darkness that would be more common and more profound but somehow accepted as just right, to its inhabitants, for their own particular reasons.
It's merely coincidence.
2007-04-25 08:21:26 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's a coincidence, and a very nice one because it gives spectacular solar eclipses. In the distant future, when the moon is further away, there won't be any more total solar eclipses.
2007-04-25 09:08:30 · answer #3 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well from our point of view, we feel that they are of same size.
The reason is very simple.
We know that sun is larger than more and is far away from us as compared to moon. But (may be co-incidence) ratio at which sun is far from us is more or less same as the size of sun and moon. i.e.
distance to sun : distance to moon == size of sun : size of moon.
thus when we observe them from earth... they look like of same size.
2007-04-25 07:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by PC 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Come back in a few thousand years and they won't be as the moon is moving away slowly
2007-04-25 07:33:06 · answer #5 · answered by Easy Peasy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it hasn't always been that way and it won't be in the future. The moon is moving away from the earth
2007-04-25 07:46:19 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no.
if it were half the size it would be equally coincidental, or twice the size or one third the size etc..
2007-04-25 07:29:58 · answer #7 · answered by karl k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋