Re: Full moon temperature effects
- From: Steve Willner <willner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Apr 2007 13:00:53 -0700
pstanley55@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Steve, I'm thinking that for a full moon, the moon would be on the
opposite side of the Earth than the sun. This arrangement means very
high tides, I think.
Both correct. The same high tides (known as "spring tides") occur at
new moon.
If so, is it not also likely that the Earth's
atmosphere is affected in the same way that tides are,
Atmospheric tides are measurable, though small. It isn't obvious to
me, though, why higher amplitudes should lead to different
temperatures. I would expect any effect to be tiny, but maybe I'm
missing something.
In response to the person wondering about the moon's apogee: it can
occur at any orbit phase. Visualizing the moon's orbit isn't easy,
but to a first approximation, you might consider the orbit shape fixed
in space with respect to the stars, whereas full moon is when the moon
is opposite the sun.
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