Ten questions about the Moon, following yesterday's once in 18 year "Supermoon" phenomenon, when the perigee coincides with full moon.
1) What term was coined in 1979 by the astrologer Richard Nolle for an article in Dell Publishing Company's HOROSCOPE magazine?
2) What is the term for several large dark plains on the surface of the moon? Galileo thought they were seas when he first saw them through a telescope.
3) Who is the only person to have his ashes scattered on the lunar surface?
4) Who is the last man to walk on the moon?
5) What is the tallest mountain on the moon?
6) If the Harvest Moon is seen in September, in which month would you see the Wolf Moon?
7) What word borrowed from German language describes a long narrow valley on the lunar surface?
8) In the Aztec culture, the sister of Sun God Huitzilopochtli is the Goddess of Moon. Name her.
9) What term describes the sudden flashes of light, darkenings, colourations and floating mists observed on the surface of the Moon?
10) What term describes the irregular oscillations of the moon, because of which we are able to see more than half of the lunar surface?
1) What term was coined in 1979 by the astrologer Richard Nolle for an article in Dell Publishing Company's HOROSCOPE magazine?
2) What is the term for several large dark plains on the surface of the moon? Galileo thought they were seas when he first saw them through a telescope.
3) Who is the only person to have his ashes scattered on the lunar surface?
4) Who is the last man to walk on the moon?
5) What is the tallest mountain on the moon?
6) If the Harvest Moon is seen in September, in which month would you see the Wolf Moon?
7) What word borrowed from German language describes a long narrow valley on the lunar surface?
8) In the Aztec culture, the sister of Sun God Huitzilopochtli is the Goddess of Moon. Name her.
9) What term describes the sudden flashes of light, darkenings, colourations and floating mists observed on the surface of the Moon?
10) What term describes the irregular oscillations of the moon, because of which we are able to see more than half of the lunar surface?
2 comments:
1. easy one- supermoon :D
2. Lunar Mares (The Sea of Tranquility is one of these)
3. Eugene Merle Shoemaker
4. Eugene Cernan
5. Mount Huygen
6. January
7. Rille (German for groove)
8. Coyolxauhqui (Sadly i had to google this one)
9. The Moon Pool
10. Libration
oh yeah. the answer to 9 is in fact TLP ( Transient Lunar Phenomena)
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