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To: BenLurkin

IOW, the Earth, our moon and the Sun are right on course.


13 posted on 10/01/2020 11:05:47 AM PDT by bgill
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I believe identifying blue moons, super moons, blood moons, etc. causes scientifically illiterate people to believe we’re in unusual times. Yes...full moons at sun perihelion and moon apogee or whatever cause eclipse effects or higher tides, but many events are simply a fluke of the calendar. 29 days in a lunar month? Of course moon phases may repeat in a given month. Wait until they start reporting duplicate new moons within a month...they’ll probably call it the month with two dark moons or something.

I am a total astronomy nerd. Summer of 1971 when I was 13 there was an unusually massive, long lasting aurora visible from Lower Michigan and southward. I called the Detroit TV station to report and was told it was just the planes landing at Selfridge. I learned to never underestimate the lack if scientific knowledge among the general population.


15 posted on 10/01/2020 11:26:59 AM PDT by F450-V10
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