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my closest friend
Written -August 4th, 2005 @5:56pm
Mood - Free
Music - Scott Joplin, The entertainer
Lately, I ended up understanding that the Moon is my closest friend.
My favorite hobby is to look at it using my telescope. I can't forget the first time I saw the Moon. After I set up my telescope I had a closer look at it. As my telescope came across it something happened that I can't explain. I started to feel just smaller and smaller. Later on I bought a more expensive and powerful telescope and started to draw sky maps on simple paper. Looking at my friend the Moon in the nightsky is a wonderful, silent experience, and this is the reason why I decided to add a lunar phase calculator to this journal. It will be available very soon.
They say that the Moon can influence our lives. The way it influences the whole Earth is visible on the large body of waters in the sea. The Sun is said to influence the centre of our personality. He is the soul-influencer of the human body. In the Rig-veda, the Sun is identified with the soul of the Universe as well as the soul of the individual. The different limbs of our body and different parts of our system are supposed to be influenced by different planets. The Sun is capable of influencing the entire being. If there is no Sun, we know what difference it makes for us.
The Moon is supposed to influence the mind. The mind is also made up of material substance. The mind is not spiritual but material.
But more scientifically...
The Moon is our nearest natural satellite. It was created when the proto Earth was hit by a proto planet over 4.5 billion years ago...After the resulting collision, that caused both planets to melt together, the Earth proper was born with it's orbiting Moon. This is when the oldest rocks on Earth were formed. Solar eclipses occur when the Moon is directly in line between the sun and the Earth stopping the light and casting a shadow 20 miles wide across the Earth. The Moon is slowly orbiting further away from the earth in a few thousand years the Moon will have got far enough away that it will no longer be able to cover up the whole of the sun and there will be no more total eclipse of the sun visible from Earth. The Moon rotates on it's axis at the same rate that it orbits around the earth. Because of this, we always see the same side of the Moon from Earth. The Moon is elongated like an egg and it is the big end that is facing towards us. There may be water on the Moon. Scientists have found evidence of frozen water on the Moon's poles. If it is there it could be use as rocket fuel to explore the solar system or power a lunar base. As the Moon's gravity pulls on the earth water is drawn towards it creating the tides.
The Earth is not alone in having a moon. Many of the other planets have moons orbiting them.
Read more on www.stardate.org
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