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hi guys im stoned with my friend and we stared at the moon a few times and realised over time it dipped on a rightward angle because we live in britain. we got onto the discussion of what country has a perfect moon orbit (rises on one horizon and goes in a straight line to the next horizon) we googled it and although we know theres probably lots of pages out there detailing it, it's one of those things you can't word properly so google doesn't pick up on it. what countries does the moon pass in a perfect line guys? thanks
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>>328519
It doesn't. If it did, then there'd be a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse every month, and these eclipses would travel north and south with the seasons.
The reason there's not a pair of eclipses every month is that the moon doesn't orbit in exactly the same plane as the sun, which means there can only be an eclipse when the line that their two orbital planes intersecting makes is pointed at the sun, and the moon happens to be there on that line (to within the tolerances you get from the earth moon and sun being massively huge spheres and not just points).
Seeing as you're high, I'll leave you with something to think about: if you look at a lunar eclipse, the sun is exactly behind you, and you can draw a straight line from the moon, through your head, through the earth, and into the sun.
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>>328525
Pics or it didn't happen.
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>>328568
So in the case of an eclipse, the sun is your eyeball, and the moon is at a point along the line marked "moon orbit" that would put it in front of the earth.
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Fiddly to claw tons drivel represent
Das dat pool town shit
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>>328597
I'm not arguing with you. But an eclipse is a more specific example of what a diagram of the Earth's and Moon's orbits shows directly.
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