Did the Moon Sink the Titanic?

Sky and Telescope Website ^ | April, 2012 | Donald W. Olson, Russell L. Doescher & Roger W. Sinnott

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Did the Moon Sink the Titanic?

Exceptionally strong tides in early 1912 may have brought the iceberg into the doomed ship’s path.

On April 10, 1912, the Titanic sailed from Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage. After picking up passengers at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland, the liner headed west across the North Atlantic to New York. But it would never get there. At 11:40 p.m. on April 14th, the Titanic struck an iceberg, and by 2:20 a.m. on April 15th the great ship had slipped beneath the waves. Although some 700 people were rescued from lifeboats, about 1,500 passengers and crew perished in the icy waters.

The year 2012 marks the centennial not only of the Titanic’s sinking, but also that of the little-known extreme lunar perigee of January 4, 1912. We investigated whether these two events could have been related through the Moon’s effect on ocean tides

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waning crescent - Last quarter April 9, New moon April 17.

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Note: this topic is from 04/12/2012. Thanks Lonesome in Massachussets.

Exceptionally strong tides in early 1912 may have brought the iceberg into the doomed ship’s path.

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