The farthest that the moon is from the earth is 252,=
500 miles. In that space (between the earth/moon) you could put EVERY=
OTHER PLANET in our solar system. I did not think this possible sinc=
e planets like Jupiter are10+ times larger than Earth, so, of course, I did=
the math for you: roughly 240,800 miles.
Mercury is 3,000 miles acr=
oss
Venus is 7,500 miles across (about t=
he same as Earth)
Mars is 4,200 miles ac=
ross
Jupiter is 88,800 miles across=
Saturn is 74,900 miles across
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Uranus is 31,700 miles across
Neptune is 30,700 miles across
The media on Apr=
il 6th was going ballistic with radical views of the backside of=
the moon (“never before seen”). Hogwash. Not seen in 50 years,=
so many of the comentators were in diapers back then. But each Apollo miss=
ion that reached the moon HAD to orbit it to then be whiplashed back toward=
earth.
Apollo missions where astronauts landed meant the command ca=
psule had to make more than 30 orbits around the moon before redocking. The=
“back side”, since the moon does not rotate, is never seen fro=
m earth but has been seen more than 300 times before this week’s view=
ing.
The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but =
it is also 400 times closer to Earth than the Sun is, which allows it to co=
ver the Sun perfectly during a total solar eclipse. What a coincidence [not=
].
The moon is not circular (or nearly circular like =
the planet earth). If it oval, like an egg, with the narrow part of the moo=
n always facing earth. Because of the “wobble” in it travel aro=
und earth, we see MORE than 50% of the moon’s surface, with small bit=
s showing in all directions at some point in the years. This reveals almost=
60%, not 50%.
Did you see the full moon on April 1st. It is the “Pink Moon”. It was cloudy here, b=
ut despite its name, the Moon didl not appear pink — the name comes f=
rom the Creeping Phlox, one of the first spring flowers to bloom, spreading=
soft pink colors across the landscape of earth at that time of year.
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Dr Bob G=
riffin
[email protected] www.grif.net
“Safe from all harms in His sheltering arms
I’m living by faith and feel no alarm.”=
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