The Moon

 

 

 

 

 

Hi guys were going to talk about the moon agian.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Myth

 

Right now we are going to talk about one of the myths about the moon. One is "So wolves howl at the Full moon?"  No, sure they howl but this has nothing to do with a Full moon. Wolves are usually next to a full moon but they are really howling to find other wolves because they found food or something else. The howling has nothing to do with a full moon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

phases

some people ask me "does the moon go through phases?" This is going to answer their question. The moon does go through phases. There are 10 phases in all. Here are all the phases the moon goes through.

- new moon

-waxing crescent

- 1st quarter

- waxing gibbous

- full moon

- 3rd quarter 

- waning gibbous

- waning  crescent

Then all over again

The moon takes about 27.3 days to orbit around the earth which is nearly a month.

 

 

 

 

 Eclipse

Why don't we get eclipses daily? Well the reason we don't get eclipses daily is because of the way the moon and the earth orbits. If the earth did not orbit the sun then we would always have eclipses daily.  The reason we don't is because the moon goes below and above the earth. So when we have an eclipse it will be at least a decade from now. Let's move on now.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  Light versus dark

 

 

  One side of the moon is light and the other is dark. So we only see one side of the moon and we never see the dark side. Like I said before the moon has phases. The moons light side changes through its orbit. The moon is not always 100% light all the time. The moon is always light by the sun. Now that we know all of that we can move on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Definition time!

New moon-when we can't see the moon because the moon is dark and it's back is to us

Waxing crescent- the 1st phases we can see

Waxing gibbous- more than half or first quarter

1st quarter- half

Full moon- 100% of the moon is showing

Waning gibbous - getting lesser

3rd quarter- after the waning gibbous

Waning crescent - the last phase

Waning gibbous phases- getting lesser going to the new moon

 Lunar month- the moon is going through the phases.

 

 

 

 

 

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