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To: Wissa
There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

The Earth doesn't revolve around the moon, either. Hence, the sarc tag.

40 posted on 10/21/2010 2:33:55 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
The Earth doesn't revolve around the moon, either. Hence, the sarc tag.

Ah. I guess you're not familiar with Pink Floyd.

42 posted on 10/21/2010 2:42:35 PM PDT by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: RegulatorCountry
There is no dark side of the moon really. As a matter of fact it's all dark.

The Earth doesn't revolve around the moon, either. Hence, the sarc tag.

To be astronomically correct,the earth-moon system revolves around their common center of gravity (aka center of mass). The center of mass of the earth-moon system lies at a point beneath the earth's surface about 2900km from the earth's center; that's about 75% of earth's radius.

For the above reason, the earth's orbit around the sun isn't a perfect ellipse - it has a wobble with a period of 28 days.

Lord, I love useless trivia!

51 posted on 10/24/2010 12:11:11 AM PDT by IonImplantGuru (I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!)
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