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“We know that the Moon is “tidally locked” to Earth, always showing the same face since its rotation matches our own. But it’s not perfect. Thanks to a something called lunar libration, the Moon sort of oscillates in its elliptical orbit, and we are able to see slightly more than half its face throughout the year.” via Joe Hanson and Philip Plait . Original article: http://goo.gl/W1UpJ
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Oh yeah! I see it!! i did not know that!!!! That’s really cool!!
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This is Neato!! I Love science!!
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Awesome 🙂
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Kimberly Hurlbut
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That’s no moon…!
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a video of the moon going through it’s phases
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Stephen Wood cool wobble
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Fragile orbit, one good metior could cause some havoc.
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WHAT THE HACK
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Wobble…… Life, as it is today, would be different if the moon was not where it is today along with its wobble
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Thats a great description of liberation and awesome graphic!
Thanks, Kimberly Hurlbut
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this is so cool
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holy sh**! that is something new!
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Sweet!
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what’s on the other side?
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Subhanallah
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Isak Mongan the honey monster is on the other side.
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The Moon is Planet X
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Very interesting. Didn’t know that
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the back of the moon is on the other side 😛 jokes
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I always love this
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that waz really cool…i lyk it
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MUITO BOM, SHOW!!!
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Wow.
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AMAZING
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People be thinking fools
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I LOVE MOON THANKS!
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Good night frends
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Lam
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Hy niharika
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amazaing…
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Sounds interesting!
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interesantirijillo ————————
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masha aalah
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That’s actually kinda scary looking. The idea that something that big is wobbling around that much, that fast, that close to our favorite planet…
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Regan Gassaway – you should be ok; it’s ¼ million miles away and receding slowly. I think the The Aliens are powering it up to make an escape…
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Cool….
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thanx 🙂
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Mmmm fascinating !
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can you imagine the tidal action 70 or 80 million years ago this satellite created… totally amazing, 30 meter waves was probably a good day.
I wonder what it must have been like to look up into the night sky and watch it sweep pass to a distant horizon. It must have been a monster in the night sky.
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2005…so whats it doing now? lol
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um what?
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interesting
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amazing
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Still think it’s made of cheese 😛
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it`s the cooles thing
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some one\
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TIL libration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration
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Love!!!!
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