today! from earth’s perspective: lunar motion a brief history of astronomy
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Today! From Earth’s Perspective: Lunar Motion A Brief History of Astronomy. FROM NOTES: Lunar motion : tidally locked - -gravity makes same side (with a displaced core) always face earth. Synodic period - -29.5 days --cycle of phases. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Today!
From Earth’s Perspective: Lunar Motion A Brief History of Astronomy
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FROM NOTES:
Lunar motion:tidally locked--gravity makes same side (with a displaced core) always face earth.
Synodic period--29.5 days --cycle of phases.
--Length of day on the moon. --Lunar phases--see diagrams. Siderial period--27.3 days --with respect to stars.
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The Moon was hit by a large object, making oval-shaped,and front side is closer to iron core than back.This keeps it tidally locked with same side facing Earth.
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The Phases of the moon.
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A Brief Early History of Astronomy: (From NOTES)
5,000 BC--Sumerians--astrology and '12th planet'?2,500 (or 8,500) BC--sphinx and great pyramid.1,600 BC--Babylonians--star and planet tables.1,500 BC (or much earlier)—Hindus --cycles of cosmos and lifetime of sun.500 BC--Pythagoras--earth and heavens spherical.350 BC--Aristotle--physics of forces, geocentric universe.250 BC--Aristarchus--first sun-centered system.200 BC--Erastosthenes--accurate size of earth.130 BC--Hipparchus--epicycle, precession, charts.7 AD?--Wise men tracked the Christmas star --Saturn conjunct Jupiter?125 AD--Claudius Ptolemy--accurate geocentric model.400 AD Hypatia and the Fall of the Alexandrian Library
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5,000 BC--Sumerians– wrote of astrology and '12th planet‘ with godlike inhabitants?
Nibiru?
Zecharia Sitchin
His book.
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2,500 (or 8,500?) BC--Sphinx and Great Pyramid.Harvard research found water markings on Sphinx, dating it to prior to 8500 BC
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1,600 BC--Babylonians--star and planet tables.
The Babylonian zodiac was sidereal, i.e. longitudes were not measured from the vernal equinox (the intersection with the celestial equator), but from a small number of bright fixed stars near the ecliptic. The most important reference stars appear to have been Aldebaran (defining 15º Taurus), Pollux (0º Cancer), Regulus (5º Leo), Spica (0º Libra), Antares (15º Scorpius) and Deneb Algedi (0º Aquarius).
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1,500 BC (or much earlier)—Hindus--cycles of cosmos and lifetime of sun.
Hindu Cycle Ancient Modern
yuga 24,000 yrs 25,800 yrs,
precession
manvantara 308 mill. yrs 225 mill.yrs.,
galactic year
Lifetime of sun 8.6 bill. yrs 8.8 bill. yrs.,
using nuclear physics
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500 BC--Pythagoras—the earth and heavens are spherical.Hence the ‘music of the spheres’, he called it.
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350 BC--Aristotle--physics of forces, geocentric,or Earth-centered universe. Planets on spheres.Each one has several, some going backward to account for retrograde motion.
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First sun-centered system.
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200 BC--Erastosthenes--accurate size of earthdetermined by the angle of Sun’s rays at noon.
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130 BC--Hipparchus—epicycle designed for retrograde motion, precession of equinoxes discovered, charts of planet motion.
Mr. Observer!
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7 AD?--Wise men tracked the Christmas star--was it Saturn conjunct Jupiter?
Painting by Giotto: Christmas star as Halley’s comet?
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125 AD--Claudius Ptolemy--accurate geocentric model of universe
Epicycle upon epicycle—its defectswere it’s complexity and different handling of inner planets from outer.
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400 AD Hypatia and the Fall of the Alexandrian Library
Poor girl.
She was head of theAlexandrian Library, and Christian fanatics cut off her limbs and head, and dragged her dead body behind her chariot through the streets of Alexandria. After all, she didn’t believe the Earth was the center of the Universe!
Then they burned down theLibrary, destroying about ½ the knowledge of the ancient world.