What exactly is a Gibbous moon?
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A Gibbous Moon is just a moon more than a quarter but not full.\nGibbous: The word gibbous in Astronomy means convex at both edges of a heavenly body, as the moon when more than half full. \nOne appropriate definition of "gibbous" is "swollen on one side." \nIt also means having a hump or humpbacked. Characterized by convexity; protuberant. Origin of the word:  From Late Latin gibbsus meaning hunch-backed, from Latin gibbus meaning hump. 1350–1400; from Latin word gibbōsus meaning humped
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The moon although is a sphere, but it is so far away that it appear a flat round disk. there is nothing strange about this and if people are not educated that moon is a spherical rock, they'd probably think it's a round flat disk.\n\nBut for me, I see it as a hole in the ceiling.
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No its because the atmosphere acts like a lense. When the moon is high in the sky, the atmosphere has little affect on what the moon looks like so it will be smaller, but as it gets closer and closer to the horizon, you will be looking through a lot more atmosphere, which is like a lense of a magnifying glass. Thats why when it is low in the sky, the moon is very huge looking.\n\nBy the way, just for future reference, all orbits are eliptical because a perfectly circular orbit is only theoretical, and would never occur in nature. However the moon's orbit is close enough to circular to not affect how big it looks compared to the affect the atmosphere does.
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Explain how a 600 yard wide rock could cause the 2,160 mile wide Moon to wobble, without touching it? It'd be like throwing a golf ball at a bus and expecting it to tip it over....\n\nIt doesn't matter what the moon does as far as wobbling and spinning, it's gravity isnt affected (unless it breaks up) and therefore the end result means zip to us. We may just get to see the far side!
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http://www.almanac.com/astronomy/moon/index.php\n\nits waxing
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Moon/Earth Comparison\nBulk parameters\n\n                                   Moon         Earth      Ratio (Moon/Earth)\nMass (1024 kg)                    0.07349       5.9736     0.0123    \nVolume (1010 km3)                 2.1958      108.321      0.0203\nEquatorial radius (km)           1738.1        6378.1    0.2725      \nPolar radius (km)                  1736.0        6356.8    0.2731\nVolumetric mean radius (km)        1737.1        6371.0    0.2727\nEllipticity (Flattening)          0.0012        0.00335    0.36    \nMean density (kg/m3)               3350          5515      0.607      \nSurface gravity (m/s2)            1.62          9.80       0.165    \nSurface acceleration (m/s2)       1.62          9.78       0.166    \nEscape velocity (km/s)            2.38         11.2        0.213    \nGM (x 106 km3/s2)                 0.0049        0.3986     0.0123 \nBond albedo                       0.11          0.306      0.360\nVisual geometric albedo           0.12          0.367      0.330    \nVisual magnitude V(1,0)          +0.21         -3.86          -\nSolar irradiance (W/m2)            1367.6        1367.6    1.000      \nBlack-body temperature (K)          274.5         254.3    1.079      \nTopographic range (km)               16            20      0.800      \nMoment of inertia (I/MR2)         0.394         0.3308     1.191\nJ2 (x 10-6)                     202.7        1082.63        0.187  \nRef The foll link
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Here is a very simple and precise explanation with good illustrations\nhttp://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonorange/
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thats a deep question today.\n\nTicker tape to the moon is a clue ;) to a  wide part of it
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no it is a reflection of the suns light.  That is why you can still see the moon during the day soemtimes.  It is still getting light from the sun.
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A full moon is the phase when the entire circular shape of the moon is visible.\n\nA new moon is the phase when no part of the moon is visible due to the position of the earth.  It happens to block the light from the sun so the moon is not able to be seen.\n\nsilly fact- the term "blue moon" like "once in a blue moon" refers to the unusual event of having two new moons in a calendar month.
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It's all an illusion. The periterrestrial sky has tiny landmarks to make the moon look big. In the higher heaves all you see is sky, which shows the true tiny size of the moon.
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Yes.  The waning crescent precedes the new moon.  Next are the waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, and last quarter.
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yes it is, and delicious too. With holes and rats at their holes. Yum YUm....\nNo i was just kidding. What you see in animations and cartoons are not all true, they are just make beliefs. \nThe moon is a solid rock just like the earth.  It formed as the same age of the earth. And you'll learm a lot more of the moon when you go to school. So study very hard and you'll know more and much interesting things, not just the moon but a lot more.
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The color! When the moon is more yellow than white, it is considered to be a "bad moon" when the lunatics are more likely to come out and cause problems.\n\n\n(lunatics derives from the latin word Luna which is the moon, lunatics are followers of the moon that traditionally would cause havoc and chaos only during the full moon)
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The moon is there, don't worry. Sometimes, yeah, you can see the people on the moon. Squint properly.
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http://www.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/uc/solar_system/4/ucss4_2a.html\n\nSome lunar craters are cut by rills, which are cracks in the surface. Rills may be faults, possibly caused by ancient tectonic activity or cooling processes.\n\nWeathering is indeed done on the moon by the intense Solar Radiation that bombards the lunar surface daily.  Temperatures on the Lunar surface vary widely on location. Although beyond the first few centimeters of the regolith the temperature is a nearly constant -35 C (at a depth of 1 meter), the surface is influenced widely by the day-night cycle. The average temperature on the surface is about 40-45 C lower than it is just below the surface.\n\nIn the day, the temperature of the Moon averages 107 C, although it rises as high as 123 C. The night cools the surface to an average of -153 C, or -233 C in the permanently shaded south polar basin. A typical non-polar minimum temperature is -181 C (at the Apollo 15 site).\n\nThe Lunar temperature increases about 280 C from just before dawn to Lunar noon.  Average temperature also changes about 6 C betwen aphelion and perihelion.  Meaning the closest and furthest the moon comes to; and far away it gets from the sun.\n\nLunar Temperature Differences\nhttp://www.asi.org/adb/m/03/05/average-temperatures.html\n\nLunar Soil\nhttp://epsc.wustl.edu/admin/resources/meteorites/regolith_breccia.html\n\nLunar Regolith and Fragmental Breccias\n\nRegolith is the name given to the layer of unconsolidated material at the surface of a planet – the loose stuff that overlies the solid rock.  On Earth, soil is part of the regolith, and lunar regolith is consequently often called “soil.”
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Today's Moon Phase      \nThere are eight distinct phases of the moon.\n\n\n\nNew Moon - The Moon's unilluminated side is facing the Earth. The Moon is not visible (except during a solar eclipse).\n\n\n\nWaxing Crescent - The Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\n\n\n\nFirst Quarter - One-half of the Moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\n\n\n\nWaxing Gibbous - The Moon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.\n\n\n\nFull Moon - The Moon's illuminated side is facing the Earth. The Moon appears to be completely illuminated by direct sunlight.\n\n\n\nWaning Gibbous - The Moon appears to be more than one-half but not fully illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\n\n\n\nLast Quarter - One-half of the Moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\n\n\n\nWaning Crescent - The Moon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the Moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.\n \nBased on that info. U FIGURE OUT FOR URSELF what the moon phase in ur state is!