Full Moon!

     I love the moon.  It's so cool, isn't it? People say that more people end up in hospitals during a full moon. I'm not sure if thats true but, in there were two studies done, in Australia and in England. The studies were done to see whether people got more dog bites during the full moon or not. The England study proved that yes, dog bites were more frequent, yet the Australian one proved the opposite. How strange! Oh and guess where the words loony, lunacy and lunatic come from?
    
     Also the moon controls the tides. I always knew that but I wasn't sure how. Then I looked it up. The Moon and Earth are attracted to eachother like magnets, the Moon is trying to take things away from Earth but the Earth's gravity holds onto them. Although Earth, holds onto most things, it cannot hold onto water, which is always moving, therefore making tides. There are two common tides, Spring tides, which happen during full or new moon and Neap tides which happen the rest of the time. With Spring tides, low tides are very low and high tides very high, they are very strong tides and have nothing to do with the season of spring. Neap tides are very weak and there is not much difference between the high tides and the low tides. 

     Also did you know all the different moons have names? The November moon is the Hunters moon. Cancerians (born June 21-July 22) are known as Moon children. I am proud to say that I am a Moon child! Go me! The July moon is the Hay moon, the September moon is the Harvest moon and so on. Also did you know that only 59% of the moons surface is visible to us here on earth? Did you know that the moon is egg-shaped and pointed towards the earth? Did you know the Moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year?
   
     Did you know that there is going to be a full moon on Halloween on Sat Oct 31st 2020? Also there will be a full moon on Fri June 13th  2014. Cool huh?
  
     The moon is awesome. Think of all the moon-like sayings? Over the moon, once in a blue moon. Did you know the blue moon is actually the second moon in a month? The full moon happens every 29 and a half days, if there are two full moons in one month, the second is called a blue moon. Cool huh? I mean think about all the myths ascociated with the moon?  Lycanthropy or  Werewolves, mermaids.

     The full moon is a magical time, and its coming up Nov 10!

     Ciao, Ciao!

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