MOONs Orbit Question!!

[Sidney]

Yesterday morning (10-31-12) I took my daughter to school at 8 am. In the western sky I noticed that the (full) moon was approx 45 degrees up, obviously preparing to set within a couple hours or so. I commented that since the moon was out that it would not be out for trick or treating that evening. SO

fast forward......around 8ish (guessing here), I was sitting on my back deck which faces east, and guess what I got to see rise???? The full moon.

How can this be? In 12 hours the moon made the entire trip?

My guess is that I plain just don't understand the relationship between the earth and moon. It just seems to me that many nights, the moon is visible around the same place at around the same time, but I know that it does vary. I just never expected to see it set and rise within 12 hours.

Anybody???

[Hervé]

Well... that happens to the sun especially around equinoxes... doesn't it?

And at full moon, the moon is exactly opposite to sun... isn't she?

[MorningSong]

starchild111, here is a neat place where you can get a table of moon-rises and moon-sets (USA and worldwide) for any given year:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php

Lots of other nifty stuff here:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

[ThePythonicCow]

Yesterday morning (10-31-12) I took my daughter to school at 8 am. In the western sky I noticed that the (full) moon was approx 45 degrees up, obviously preparing to set within a couple hours or so. I commented that since the moon was out that it would not be out for trick or treating that evening.

If you go to http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/, and enter the name of a city near you, then you can see what the local times for the sun and moon, rising and setting, are near you.

[sirdipswitch]

Starchild!!! First ya gotta know how the Moon works, before ya can figure that one out. ccc. The Moon didn't make the "trip". It only moves a little ways each night. It takes 28 days for the Moon to go round the Earth once. It takes 28 days for the moon to make one revolution on its axis, therefore keeping the same side to Earth, all of the time. Earth rotates counter-clockwise, the Moon orbits clockwise, and gives the illusion that it is going round the Earth every night.

The Earth rotating one way and Moon orbiting the other way, is called a retrograde orbit, or decaying orbit. Anything with a decaying orbit, will slow down and fall to the parent body. Except... our Moon. Our Moon has a perfectly cicular orbit, (only one in our Solar system) and moves slower, rotates slower, than any other moon in our Solar system. All things that should increase it's decay rate. And yet it just sits out there and our scientific community does not know why. The only way that the Moon can possibly perform the way it does, is that if it is an intelligently controlled vehical. A Starship.

Does that help. cccccccccc.

[DeDukshyn]

Starchild!!! First ya gotta know how the Moon works, before ya can figure that one out. ccc. The Moon didn't make the "trip". It only moves a little ways each night. It takes 28 days for the Moon to go round the Earth once. It takes 28 days for the moon to make one revolution on its axis, therefore keeping the same side to Earth, all of the time. Earth rotates counter-clockwise, the Moon orbits clockwise, and gives the illusion that it is going round the Earth every night.

The Earth rotating one way and Moon orbiting the other way, is called a retrograde orbit, or decaying orbit. Anything with a decaying orbit, will slow down and fall to the parent body. Except... our Moon. Our Moon has a perfectly cicular orbit, (only one in our Solar system) and moves slower, rotates slower, than any other moon in our Solar system. All things that should increase it's decay rate. And yet it just sits out there and our scientific community does not know why. The only way that the Moon can possibly perform the way it does, is that if it is an intelligently controlled vehical. A Starship.

Does that help. cccccccccc.


Hehe, I'm not sure if that did help. One thing is for certain ... Our moon is a complete anomaly in our solar system -- in many more ways than one.

[Sidney]

Starchild!!! First ya gotta know how the Moon works, before ya can figure that one out. ccc. The Moon didn't make the "trip". It only moves a little ways each night. It takes 28 days for the Moon to go round the Earth once. It takes 28 days for the moon to make one revolution on its axis, therefore keeping the same side to Earth, all of the time. Earth rotates counter-clockwise, the Moon orbits clockwise, and gives the illusion that it is going round the Earth every night.

The Earth rotating one way and Moon orbiting the other way, is called a retrograde orbit, or decaying orbit. Anything with a decaying orbit, will slow down and fall to the parent body. Except... our Moon. Our Moon has a perfectly cicular orbit, (only one in our Solar system) and moves slower, rotates slower, than any other moon in our Solar system. All things that should increase it's decay rate. And yet it just sits out there and our scientific community does not know why. The only way that the Moon can possibly perform the way it does, is that if it is an intelligently controlled vehical. A Starship.

Does that help. cccccccccc.

That does help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you..:cheers::thank_you2:

[soleil]

And yet it just sits out there and our scientific community does not know why. The only way that the Moon can possibly perform the way it does, is that if it is an intelligently controlled vehical. A Starship.

Does that help. cccccccccc.
are you saying what i think you're saying? who is driving the moon? :confused::cool:

[Maia Gabrial]

Or how about this: These are strange times. The Moon is preparing to leave soon. And the beings inside don't care how obvious they are.... Not very scientific, I know.... :becky:

[peace]

the moon is not a ship. its a big hunk of rock. there is nothing on the moon but what we've left behind.

[Maia Gabrial]

the moon is not a ship. its a big hunk of rock. there is nothing on the moon but what we've left behind.

Hey peace,
How are you so certain of that? Been there?

[Nick Matkin]

the moon is not a ship. its a big hunk of rock. there is nothing on the moon but what we've left behind.

Hey peace,
How are you so certain of that? Been there?

1) Who says and what evidence is there that the Moon is a 'ship'?
2) What evidence is there that it contains 'beings'?
3) Who are these beings and where did they come from before they arrived on the Moon?
4) What part of celestial mechanics suggests it's not a hunk of rock in a perfectly natural orbit around the Earth?
5) Yes the Moon is unique in the solar system (the Earth-Moon is sometimes described as a dual-planet system), but why should that make it artificial or suggest it is inhabited by beings?
6) The Moon is in 'tidal lock' with the Earth. It does not need aliens to explain why that has occurred.

Nick

[peace]

the moon is not a ship. its a big hunk of rock. there is nothing on the moon but what we've left behind.

Hey peace,
How are you so certain of that? Been there?

Nope, just rational.

[Maia Gabrial]

Posted by Maia Gabrial (here)



Posted by peace (here)
the moon is not a ship. its a big hunk of rock. there is nothing on the moon but what we've left behind.
Hey peace,
How are you so certain of that? Been there? 1) Who says and what evidence is there that the Moon is a 'ship'?
2) What evidence is there that it contains 'beings'?
3) Who are these beings and where did they come from before they arrived on the Moon?
4) What part of celestial mechanics suggests it's not a hunk of rock in a perfectly natural orbit around the Earth?
5) Yes the Moon is unique in the solar system (the Earth-Moon is sometimes described as a dual-planet system), but why should that make it artificial or suggest it is inhabited by beings?
6) The Moon is in 'tidal lock' with the Earth. It does not need aliens to explain why that has occurred.

Nick

Are you trying to say that you trust the "experts" who have been lying to us? However, there have been people who have been there. I think there's more evidence that the moon isn't natural and hasn't always been there.


Nope, just rational.

I'm rational, too, peace. It's just that I've seen and experienced alot of weird things in my life.

[SKIBADABOMSKI]

Basically if an entity from wherever sees our solar system they'll know by seeing the rings on Saturn and our moon that we are in our kindergarden stages of evolution and that we are life being groomed for whatever purposes.

It must be like a (DON'T WALK ON THE GRASS) sign.

And as we know the grass gets walked on. Some people let their dogs poop on the grass but most will just avoid it.
Once us earth worms get together and remove the sign then although the grass gets squashed and trampled on and many of us worms may die, we'll have a stronger thicker grass in the future that all forms of life can share.

Ironically the moons purpose has been justified by this very thread. We are all losing our bloody marbles.

Ski-