Rob’s Megaphone

Moon “phased” by changing positions
 

by Dr. Jerry D. Wilson,
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Lander University

A couple of questions, one technical and the other better-rounded.
Question: The moon goes through phases – new, first-quarter, full and third- (or last) quarter. Yet, when we see a first- or third-quarter moon, the face of the moon we see is one-half [...]

July 30
On this day in . . .  
1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1729 – Baltimore, Maryland is founded.
1932 – Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first Academy Award winning cartoon and first cartoon short to use Technicolor, premieres.
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1954 
Elvis [...]