during the first and third quarters of the moon, when the low and high tides are almost equal. A Lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes into the earth’s shadow. This can only occur during a full moon, because the moon, sun, and earth have to be aligned for this to happen. A solar eclipse is when the moon blocks…
In astronomy, precession is an important concept that determines our view of the night sky. Over the centuries, our view of the night sky has changed due to precession. As a result, everyone should have the right and a duty to know about astronomy. Precession impacts our night sky; thus it is crucial to be aware of. Precession is caused by the axis of rotation twisting due to the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon that makes the Earth’s axis upright relative to its orbit…
Babylon attacked until such time as the strange solar eclipse happened which confused both sides of the battle. Nebuchadnezzar talked to every one of his soldiers to explain the sign, and he ordered them to step down, but historians think he also needed an excuse to end the battle because of the fact that defeating…
Benjamin Banneker was born in 1731 and raised in Maryland on a tobacco farm. Later when Banneker was walking he spotted a salesman holding his pocket watch. So Benjamin asked him if he could borrow it for a while. The salesman agreed and gave him the watch. Banneker took it home and carefully took the watch apart and examined and drew each of the parts the watch contained. Then Benjamin placed all the pieces together again and gave it back to the salesman. Ever since Banneker was little…
The nazca lines are all over the nazca desert. The nazca lines are giant geoglyphs, geoglyphs are large designs that can tell a story most are longer than 4 meters across. That are ancient, ancient means old I mean really old thousand, millions, billions of year old. The nazca lines have had several meanings of existants. They have had many theories of why there are giant lines in the nazca lines. One theory caught my eye, that theory was the theory by: Robin Edgar His theory states…
looking to devour any prey it can gets its jaws on. The root of hemlock is clearly alluding to the poison of the frog in the first verse. The rest of this verse of rather clear, until you get to the moons eclipse part; slips of yew is not hard to understand, but the moons eclipse is important, since eclipses were thought to be sings of evil and bad luck, thus fitting well into their chant. The dead baby, ditch delivered by a drab, is morbid and sad. A drab is defined as a “whore” or also known…
eating holes in the planking of his fleet, Columbus was forced to abandon two of his ships and finally had to beach his last two caravels on the north coast of an island now known as Jamaica, on June 25, 1503. [See amazing images of the total lunar eclipse on Oct. 8, 2014] Initially, the native peoples (Arawak Indians) welcomed the castaways, providing them with food and…
Plot: The Mayan kingdom is at its heights of wealth and power but the empire is beginning to stumble. The leaders believe they must build more temples and sacrifice more people or their crops and citizens will die.Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), a peaceful hunter in a remote tribe, is captured along with his entire village in a raid. He is scheduled for a ritual sacrifice until he makes a daring escape and tries to make it back to his pregnant wife and son. Summary: The movie started with a group…
per second which was a pretty good hypothesis because of the way Olaus concluded and figured out the speed of light by studying the eclipse time of certain moons in Jupiter’s gravitational pull. When was the speed of light discovered? The speed of light was discovered in 1676 but was discovered by a man named Olaus Roemer that was studying Jupiter’s moon’s eclipses. Why is the speed of light important? The speed of light is 186,000 m/s which is the ultimate speed limit of the universe because…
gravitational pulls on Earth are responsible for this natural phenomenon creating the tides. Tides occur because the Moon's gravity decreases with distance from the Moon. 4. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is positioned directly between the Sun and the Moon and the Earth casts a shadow on Moon. A solar eclipse happens when the moon is positioned directly between the Earth and the Sun and the Earth passes into the shadow of the moon. 5. The Earth depends on…