Tag: tangents

• revisiting the distance to the moon

  

  I questioned the distance to the moon when I found its rise/set times could be used as tangents on a circle. This then led to the discovery that the Northern and Southern hemispheres have differing rise/set times on the same days. I also saw the moon could not form an orbit around Earth. One moon…

  crystalcodex

  November 11, 2021

  Science

  calculations, critical thinking, Earth, earth movements, experiment, lunar, lunar cycle, math, Mathematics, Moons Distance, Science, tangents, trigonometry