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Offline RyanX

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Moon Changes?
« on: January 21, 2011, 10:52:51 PM »
According to the folks who made these two little videos, the moon has tilted from its usual position facing us.

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYglbymnihQ

_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGGkWMPbpOA

Here are a couple images of the moon taken from these video:





This is what the (man on the) moon is supposed to look like:



So what's going on here?  Is this just some digital rotation these people are doing?  Some visual distortion from the earth's atmosphere?  I recall there was a visible meteor impact on the moon recently too, so maybe the moon is getting knocked around in orbit?

Honestly I haven't paid this close attention to the moon recently.  It looks like the skies will be clear tonight and the moon is still close to full, so I'll try to go outside and see if I can make out the man on the moon.  Maybe it won't be the "man" on the moon anymore...  :P
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