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From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Geosynchronous Geocentricity Howl At The Moon (was: Re: Fwd:
CNN Breaking News)


> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:34:47 -0600 "Lord Golden"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > writes:
> > > > Naaaa, thirteenth.  The Hebrew calendar works on 'true' lunar
> > > months of
> > > > 29.5 days, but since you can't really have half a day in one month
> > > and
> >
> > > The difference between a 'true' and non true lunar month being?
> > > (I like my year better, you would only have to 'add' a month every
> > > 23.5 years).
> > -
> >
> > True lunar month = the real time it takes the moon to orbit the Earth.
> > Non-'true' lunar month = practical application of that cycle in a
> > calendar system.
>
> But how many days does it take for the moon to go from New-Moon to
> New-Moon?  I was under the impression that it was 28.
>

Here are the dates for the full moons in 2001

1/28    @ 5:50pm ~  Cold Moon
2/27    @ 4:17am ~  Quickening Moon
3/28    @ 1:25pm ~  Storm Moon
4/26    @ 10:00pm ~  Wind Moon
5/26    @ 6:51am ~  Flower Moon
6/24    @ 4:42pm ~  Mead Moon
7/24    @ 4:07am ~  Thunder Moon
8/22    @ 5:29pm ~  Corn Moon
9/21    @ 8:58am ~  Harvest Moon
10/21  @ 2:20am ~  Blood Moon
11/19  @ 8:34pm ~  Mourning Moon
12/19 @ 2:10pm ~  Long Nights Moon

You see that they are approximately 29.5 days apart.

Dan M.

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