Moon Lab Report

In the full moon phase the side of the moon that can be observed from earth becomes illuminated by the sun n its entirety. Lastly, the aforementioned illuminated portion begins to shrink or wane and thus the moon is considered to be in the waning gibbous phase, meaning that the illuminated portion is constricts in size or diameter every day.

Describe the location of the moon in the sky of the horizon diagram at bottom. Use direction words (like north, west, etc.) and estimate its altitude in degrees. Location of the moon – east. Altitude = 00

c) Mark the region that is both visible from earth and illuminated by the sun. That region will be the phase of the moon we on earth see.

17. The moon changes its phase because it orbits the earth, and half the moon always faces the sun, the other half is always dark, we just see the combination of the two.

right hand side of the moon. Use the drawing above to draw the appearance of the moon

From memory, draw the positions of the Earth-Moon-Sun system during a complete monthly tidal cycle. Indicate the tide conditions experienced on Earth, the phases of the Moon, the time between those phases, and syzygy and quadrature.

In accordance with the will of Her Majesty, and in upholding the duties charged to me as a Senior Chronicler, I hereby submit an account of The Royal Handmaidens and Music.

The moon is a giant ball of rock in our sky. The moon came to be where it is now when a giant, mars sized “proto plantet” as such, smashed into earth sending tons of molten rock flying into space and slowly the moon began to form from that rock. The moon affects our planet in many ways. It affects the oceans tides by pulling water toward where ever it is. Also it has an effect on how long each day is because it slows down the earths spinning by orbiting in the opposite direction. If the moon moon were only 10% further away from earth than it is today the earth would wobble and we would be totally out of place. If the moon was closer to earth, and it depends how much closer, but if it was about 20 times closer the earth would spin much slower

In the poem ‘Moon’, Kathleen Jamie explores themes of abandonment, loneliness and disconnection. She does this by utilizing a clearly dysfunctional relationship between a mother and child. The child replaces the either mentally or physically absent mother with the presence of the moon. To explore the emotional distance between child and mother, the author uses dark and light imagery to empathize the child’s loneliness and to evoke the scene of a parent visiting they child late at night. Personification of inanimate objects illustrates the detrimental effects the unavailable mother has on the child’s mental wellbeing. The poem ends with dialogue from the protagonist, the child, pointing out that the moon is not her mother, as if to be

This doesn’t occur because of the moon’s gravitational pull, like with the affect on the ocean’s tides. Instead, the moon’s own rotation affects the earth’s larger rotation because the earth’s gravitational pull keeps the moon at a slower rate (Stroud, 17). This slow moon rotation forces the earth to slightly slow down its rotation, as well. According to Stroud in The Book of the Moon, this slowing down is at a .0002 seconds per day (Stroud, 21). Over the course of one hundred years, a day will be about two milliseconds longer (Anonymous, website). If enough years go by, those milliseconds will add up to seconds, minutes, and even hours. If an astronaut finds himself on the moon, the difference in time is immediately felt because it takes so long for the moon to complete a full rotation. Mitton says that “a day on the moon is actually as much as a month on planet earth,” (Mitton, 10). As previously mentioned, tidal acceleration is caused by the moon. This acceleration also affects the Earth’s rotation by accelerating the water towards the moon (Rose, moonconnection.com). This causes the water to bulge. This bulge’s size and affects depends on its distance from the moon. “As gravitational force acts to draw the water closer to the moon, inertia attempts to keep the water in place. But the gravitational force exceeds it and the water is pulled toward the moon, causing a “bulge” of water on the near side toward the moon” (Ross, D.A., oceanservice.noaa.gov). This pulling creates the bulge’s size and applies pressure that affects the rotation of the Earth. Although the affect is not too visible in any other way than ocean tides, it will, overtime, cause the Earth to slow

The moon is a moths compass they always make sure that they're left side of there body is lined up with the outside of the moon. A moths is a very hard animals to study because of it many movements ( Wolchover, 2011). Once a month sees a bright light in its seeing radios they go to it and totally forget about the moon. Once the moth find a light that not the moon they are automatically drawn to it. The moths that gets attached to the light ends up finding itself flying around the light in a spiral

Aristarchus knew that on average two times a year, the surface of the full Moon becomes dark for a period ranging up to around two hours. It was reasoned that during these times, the Moon was passing through the shadow cast by the Earth, known as a lunar eclipse. The eclipse would only occur during the full Moon because that 's the time when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun. Aristarchus realized that the longest lunar eclipses must occur when the Moon passes right through the center of the Earth 's shadow, and so that the angular size of the Earth 's shadow could be measured by noting the difference in the position of the Moon before and after the eclipse. He could then compare this angular size to the angular size of the Moon to get the ratio between them. He used the formula

5) When I first observed the moon on September 24, 2012 I observed that it was at a waxing gibbous phase which meant that I saw nearly half of the moon lit up, and half was dark basically. Every two days that I made an observation, the moon seemed to get bigger each time, but on the last day it started to decrease from the full moon phase but only slightly. On October 2, 2012 for my last day of observation I saw that the part of the moon I could see was getting smaller, but only by a little. The moon changed from small to full moon which was big, and then back to becoming smaller. I understand that the moon doesn’t actually change sizes, but when observing the amount of light or darkness that I can see, hence it appears smaller or bigger.

There is a total of eight Phases of the moon. The first stage of the moon is new the moon. The second stage of the moon is Waxing Crescent. The third stage of the moon is the First Quarter. The fourth stage of the moon is Waxing Crescent. The fifth stage of the moon is the Full Moon. The sixth stage of the moon is Waning Gibbous. The seventh stage of the moon is Last Quarter. The eighth stage of the moon is Waning Crescent.

As you know, the solar eclipse this Monday is a unique teaching opportunity. NASA a full range of activities and projects to help students and teachers experience "Eclipsapalooza". Out of concern for not being able to monitor the safety of all students viewing the eclipse properly, only middle school students in grades 5 through 8 will be experience viewing the event happening from 11:40-1:09. In addition, those students must have solar eclipse approved sun glasses and signed parent permission waivers.