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Astronomy Since humans have walked the earth, we have stared

at the changing moon with wonder. But what really
compels the soul to causes the appearance of the moon to change so
look upwards and drastically ?
leads us from this
world to another.
- Plato

The answer has to do with the position of not just

moon but the sun and the earth as well. This is also
what causes eclipses and tides.

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 Remember that the sun is the center of our
solar system and the Earth is revolving
around the sun as the year goes by and
rotating on its axis.

The moon is
the first milestone
on the road to the
stars.
- Arthur C.
Clarke

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 Hitch your wagon
to a
star.

- Ralph Waldo
Emerson

But at the same time, the moon is

revolving around the earth and
rotating on its own axis.

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 Aiming for the moon
and missing it is
better than aiming for
the ditch and hitting it.

The moon revolves around the earth approximately every 28 days. Its
rotation is also approximately 28 days. So the same side of the moon is
always facing the earth.

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 Everyone is a moon, The Moon does not give off its own light
and has a dark side but reflects light from the sun. Half of the
which he never shows moon that faces the earth is not always the
to anyone . half that is being lit by the sun.
Mark Twain

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 When it is
darkest, men see
the stars.
 - Ralph Waldo
Emerson

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 Those are the same
stars, and that is the
same moon, that look The light from the sun is
down upon your hitting the side of the moon
brothers and sisters …”
facing away from the Earth.
Sojourner
Truth

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 Keep your
eyes Approximately one
on the stars, week later, we see half
and your feet on of the lighted side of the
the ground. moon. This is called a
 - Theodore first quarter moon.
Roosevelt

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 Night time is
really the best time
to work.  Two weeks after the
All the ideas are there to new moon, a full moon
be yours because everyone appears. The entire
else is asleep. 
lighted side of the moon
-Catherine O'Hara
is facing earth.

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 Moonlight is
sculpture.  Three weeks after the
new moon, a third
- Nathaniel quarter moon appears.
Hawthorne We can see half of the
lighted surface of the
moon from earth.

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 No sight is more
provocative of awe
than is the night sky. 
-Llewelyn Powys

Four weeks after the new moon, another new moon appears and
the cycle starts again.

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Gibbous means Waxing means
to be
to grow
humpbacked

In between each of
the quarter phases
are other distinct
phases.

Waning means
to decrease

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 The Earth is
just too small and fragile
a basket for the human
race to keep all its eggs
in.
Robert
Heinlein

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 •There are two high tides and two
low tides each day.
But why, some
say, the moon?… • Tides are caused by the pull of
And they may well both the sun and the moon on the
ask, why climb the Earth.
highest mountain?
•Changes in the positions of the
John F.
Earth, sun, and moon affect the
Kennedy Jr.
height of the tides throughout the
month.

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 That's our new frontier
out there, and it's
everybody's business to •Caused when the earth, moon, and sun are in a straight line
know about space.
Christa •The combination of the gravitational pull of the sun and moon cause the
McAuliffe ocean of the Earth to Bulge.
•Spring tides occur during new and full moons.
•Spring tides have the greatest range between high and low tides. Really
high, high tides and really low, low tides.
•Named from an Old English term meaning to jump -- NOT FROM THE
SEASON

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 For a dreamer
is one who can
find his way by moonlight, •When the earth, moon, and sun are at a
and see the dawn before
the rest of the world.   right angle
- Oscar Wilde
•Occur during first and third quarter
moons.
•Produce the least range between high and
low tide.

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 Surely the
stars are Video on tides
images of love.

-  Philip James
Bailey

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 Shoot for the
moon. Even if •A solar eclipse is when an object in
space casts a shadow from the sun on
you miss, you'll another object in space.
land among the •A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth

stars. blocks the sunlight from reaching the

moon.

Question: Why do lunar eclipses occur Answer: That is the only time that the
earth comes between the moon and sun.
only during full moons?

Question: Why don’t we have a lunar Answer: The tilt of the moon’s orbit is 5°
eclipse every full moon? different than the earth

Answer: The light from the sun gets bent

Question: Why does the full moon
as it passes through our atmosphere
appear to be red during certain times of causing it to appear red.
the year?

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 There are no
Occurs when the moon
passengers on
passes between the Earth and
spaceship
sun, blocking the sunlight
Earth, we are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan from reaching Earth.

Total solar eclipses are visible on Earth for

only a few hundred miles wide. A lunar
eclipse visible for at least half the earth.

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 Surely the stars
are VIDEO on
images Eclipses
of love.
-  Philip James
Bailey

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