What is the Moon?
The Moon installation touring the UK that inspired this episode (Museum of the Moon)Awesome simulated view of the Moon over 1 month (Wikipedia)Why do people say the Moon is made of cheese? (Mental Floss)Five myths about the Moon (EarthSky)Man in the Moon (Wikipedia)Ancient Greek astronomy (Wikipedia)Eratosthenes measurement of the Earth's circumference (Wikipedia)Aristarchus's 3rd-century BCE calculations on the relative sizes of the Sun, Earth & Moon (Wikipedia)The lunar calendar (Wikipedia)The Celtic year (Living Myths)The death & life of the 13-month calendar (City Lab)What causes the seasons? The Earth's tilt, which is theorised to be caused by a cosmic crash that created the Moon (NASA)La Luna, Belinda Carlisle (YouTube)"A moon is an object that orbits a planet or something else that is not a star. Besides planets, moons can circle dwarf planets, large asteroids, & other bodies" (National Geographic)The Moon (Wikipedia)Earth's moon (NASA)Origins of 'luna' (Online Etymology Dictionary)List of natural satellites, i.e. all the moons in our solar system (Wikipedia)Our solar system: Moons (NASA)Origin of the Moon (Wikipedia)Lunar rocks & soils from Apollo missions (NASA)What the Moon tells us about Earth (EarthSky)The Moon does have some tectonic activity & 'moonquakes', but it's much less than on Earth (NASA)Moonquakes (NASA)"The tides in the oceans occur primarily because of the gravitational force of the Moon & secondarily the Sun's tidal force. Tidal forces stretch the Earth in the direction of the tide-producing body" (HyperPhysics)Io & tidal heating: This young lady just won a science scholarship from Cards Against Humanity for this great video (YouTube)They've found ice in permanently shadowed polar craters on the Moon, but not liquid water (SETI)Why is the Moon so scarred with craters? (NASA)"The South Pole-Aitken basin is a huge impact crater on the far side of the Moon. Roughly 2,500 km in diameter & 13 km deep" (Wikipedia)Thank you Moon: GIF of the path of an asteroid's orbit that came in close contact with Earth in 2003 & will return in 2032 (9gag)The Manicouagan crater: One of the oldest known impact craters & the largest 'visible' impact crater on Earth (Wikipedia)A view of the Manicouagan crater from the space station (Twitter, Chris Hadfield)Is there an atmosphere on the Moon? (NASA)Regolith (Wikipedia)Lunar soil (Wikipedia)Gravitation of the Moon (Wikipedia)"The gravitational field of the Moon has been measured through tracking the Doppler shift of radio signals emitted by orbiting spacecraft" (Wikipedia)Does the Moon orbit the Sun or the Earth? (Wired)Barycentre: "The center of mass of two or more bodies that are orbiting each other, or the point around which they both orbit" (Wikipedia)Lagrange points: Parking places in space (Space.com)Sizing up the moons of the solar system (University of Michigan, Jason Maguran)Team solves the origin of the Moon's 'mascons' mystery (Phys.org)What colour is the Moon? (Universe Today)Astronomical albedo (Wikipedia)Lunar & solar eclipses (NASA)Why is the Moon exactly the same apparent size from Earth as the Sun? (Astronomy Magazine)Footage of the diamond ring effect from a total solar eclipse (Business Insider, Australia)The Sun's corona is its outer atmosphere (NASA)The next solar & lunar eclipses (TimeAndDate)Manned missions to the Moon: Will NASA or others return to the surface? (ABC, Australia)Does a full moon really trigger strange behaviour? (Scientific American)It's just a phase: The supermoon won't drive you mad (LiveScience)Extraterrestrial real estate (Wikipedia)"Earth's oldest, most recognised celestial real estate agency" (Lunar Land)Origins of 'lunatic' (Online Etymology Dictionary)The United Nations Outer Space Treaty (UN Office for Outer Space Affairs)Notable claims by people who think they own the Moon & other exraterrestrial real estate (Wikipedia)Geosynchronous orbits & the Bogotá Declaration of 1976 (Wikipedia)Strange Attractor went to the Moon in 2016 for a backyard film festival 😀 (YouTube)Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, AustraliaCorrections
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