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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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The Moons Nodes are the points in the Zodiac where the plane of the Earth's orbit is crossed by the plane of the Moons orbit.
Earth's slender crescent Moon will glide by two brilliant planets in the dawn sky this week as it heads for a close encounter with Mercury on July 29.
A lunar eclipse is a precise Full Moon when the Sun casts the earth's shadow onto the Moon.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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If our sun were to produce a large superflare, Earth's ozone layer would be destroyed and ice on the daylight side of moons as far out as those of Jupiter or even Saturn would be melted, producing vast floodplains that refreeze after the flare subsides.
Earth's Moon is oversized as such things go-- judging from our own solar system few planets anywhere often come to possess a moon as large in proportion to the primary world as the Moon is to Earth.
If the earth's and moon's orbits were perfectly circular, then the relative sizes of the moon and sun would always be the same during such an eclipse.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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This is caused by the Moon and Sun tugging on Earth's equatorial bulge.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The moon's gravitational attraction for the earth's waters will change in inverse proportion to the third power of the distance between the earth and moon, in accordance with the previously mentioned variation of Newton's Law of Gravitation.
Current research is directed towards understanding the transport and energization of plasmas within Earth's magnetosphere using measurements from Geotail and studies of the Jovian magnetosphere and the environs of the major Jovian moons using measurements from Galileo.
It is the seismometers' lack of sensitivity to the impact of small comets that accounts for the discrepancy in the low number of large objects detected on the Moon relative to the number of such objects that are seen falling into Earth's atmosphere.
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