Re: Asteroid impact

["Ray Stanford" <starsong@prodigy.net>]

 Bill Adlam wrote:


>Ray Stanford wrote:
>
>>    Yeah!  Not only that:  (1) This is Friday the 13th; (2) The moon is
full
>>tonight; and (3) [Worse of all!] TONIGHT'S MOON WILL ECLIPSE!!!
>
>Point (2) is redundant*, as every lunar eclipse occurs on the night of a
full
>moon.  For similar reasons, every solar eclipse takes place the day before
a
>new moon.  This should be obvious once you consider it.
>
> Bill


    What's NEW, Bill?   :-)  Any intelligent  third-grader who thinks beyond
games and toys should know that! [At least my three children did at that
age.]

    This list is a dinosaur thing, not an beginners class in astronomy, so I
didn't go into that.   Furthermore, my second point cannot be considered
redundant to my first one (as you assert), because my first point referred
to Friday the 13th, not to the lunar eclipse.  Then too, my three points
were a list of SUPERSTITIONS, with no attempt to teach primary  astronomy.
If you'd posted your comment to me, personally, instead of to the dino net,
I'd just answer you personally, but you chose open forum, so I respond at
that level.  [Please forgive me, fellow listers.]

    On the night of March 12, I told my wife (without any external knowledge
an eclipsed moon was to occur),  "Gosh!  Look how extraordinarily bright
that full moon is tonight.  There must be a very close alignment, and I'll
bet there'll be an eclipse on this one, or it just wouldn't be so bright."

    So if you have young children to teach, teach them, but please consider
that most of the bright people on this list know the basics.   Thanks,
anyway.

Regards, Ray Stanford