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The moon's path over 28 days (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by SuperSleuth@lemm.ee to c/interestingasfuck@lemm.ee

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 64 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Astrophysicist here: This is caused by the moon developing a crescent shape at each end of the path, resulting in a boomerang-like behavior where the rotational velocity of the moon causes it to return back to where it was thrown.

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

You spelled Astralphysicist wrong.

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[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Wait a minute

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Fucking lol!

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