Skip Robinson wrote:
[...]
P.S. Although my cousin refuses to believe that she was hoodwinked by
Pink
Floyd, the moon has no dark side. I might as well try to convince her
that people are descended from monkeys. Science schmience.
[...]
Not true. Moon *do have dark side*. Obviously this is not due to the
colour of moon dust, but the due to the fact we *NEVER* see the other
side. We always see the same side of the moon. Period of rotation around
the Earth and period of revolution around moon's own axle are the same.
Approximately 28 days, AFAIR.
(Forgive me my poor astrophysics English. Just for clarification: the
periods above for the Earth are 365 days and 24h respectively. )
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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