If the moon was behind the sun from us, something would be very, very wrong
with our solar system.
The ancient Greeks were able to calculate the distance to the moon as 30 Earth
diameters. They did not know how big the Earth was for another 200 years
(until Eratosthenes measured it), but they could tell by timing Earth's shadow
drifting across the moon how far the moon was in Earth diameters.
You could fit 109 Earth's inside the solar diameter. So our sun would engulf
not only the Earth and moon, but the entire lunar orbit plus some. The lunar
orbit would be approximately 60 Earth diameters, so the sun centered on the
Earth would be bigger still, with a radius of another 20 Earth diameters beyond.
Earth's diameter we now know to be close to 70,000 stadia (8000 miles).
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
On Thursday, March 12, 2020, 7:42:14 AM PDT, Monica Hall
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Explain the sun being behind the moon? Or vice versus? Or the moon being
behind the sun?
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 11, 2020, at 4:26 PM, Paul (Redacted sender "pasha582" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are you sure this is the address? Dan W. and I just went there a week or two
ago.
Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo
On Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 10:10:03 AM PDT, Debbie Cotten
<cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ok
Debbie
Outreach, Event Coordinator of
The Spokane Astronomical Society
cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx
509-991-2518
On March 11, 2020 at 9:03 AM Mark Grimes <mwgrimes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Debbie,
I can be there a little after 5. I will bring binoculars.
Mark
From: sas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <sas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Debbie
Cotten
Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 1:42 PM
To: sas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [SAS] Re: march 11th outreach
address is
Adams Elementary, 14707 E. 8th Avenue, Spokane Valley, WA 99037
On March 9, 2020 at 1:40 PM Debbie Cotten <cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
March 11th event at Adam's Elementary in the valley is still
Scheduled. We can start setting up at 4
still need people to bring a telescope out if it is clear.
Debbie
Outreach, Event Coordinator of
The Spokane Astronomical Society
cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx
509-991-2518
