[ASTR 101] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (33 pages long)
30 Mar 2017
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The moon some history & myth: traditional folklore: harvest & hunter"s moons, blue moon, super moon, calendar: importance for illumination at night, lunisolar: hebrew, buddhist, hindu, kurdish, bengali, tibetan, chinese, japanese, Mongolian, korean, hellenic, coligny, babylonian: seems to be recorded from really old times (aurignacian culture, 32,000bc &lascauz paintings 15,000 years old) The moon"s rotation: synchronous tidal or gravitational locking: moon is always showing us the same side. The phases of the moon moon"s dance: 29. 5 days for the face of the moon to repeat, waxing: moon visible afternoon/ evening. Phases of the earth & inner planets: geocentric, heliocentric. When earth passes through the moon"s shadow = solar eclipse (sun is being eclipsed, solar means sun in latin) The earth passes through the moon"s shadow. Can be seen by a narrow segment of people on earth for a short period of time. Can only occur at a new moon.
