If once in a life time, you see a blue moon, don’t think your eyes are playing tricks on you. Its caused by dust in our upper atmosphere; ice crystal are what makes you see rings round the moon. Over the centuries, magical powers have been attributed to the moon. It has been said to bring on lunacy affect the growth of plants, eyes of cats, spot of panthers, functions of women and activities of ghosts. France once had a law against cutting timber except during a waning moon. The moon and to lesser degree the sun, the does cause the ocean tides because their gravitational pull. But a common mistake of primitive people is to think that everything timed is the same rhythm as moon is caused by it.All the moon gazing, probing and measuring has never solved the big: its origin.one theory is that it began as a planet, got too near the more massive earth was captured and turned into a satellite. Another is that the moon is the result of a giant tidal bulge forming on our earth’s surface, separating them spinning off into space. If the latter theory is true scientist say there would be two clues the moon would consist of lighter materials than the earth, and the earth would be left with a scar. As a matter of facts the moon does weigh less. And the Pacific Ocean does have a scarlike bottom of basalt rocks instead of the green rocks usually found near the earth’s surface.But assumption that if man can get to the moon he’ll find the answer is unfounded man has been on the earth hundreds of thousands of years without determining the earth’s origin. Scientist of course will never give up either quest Indeed for thousands of years the moon has worked a spell of fascination over all the people on its near neighbor the earth the ancient worshipped this lamp in the sky and speculated about it endlessly. Modern astronomers continue to explore its mysteries almost every night of the year, and with reasonAges ago before artificial light was known it was important as illumination at night. As everyone knows the moon has no light of its own, it shines with the cold reflection of the distant sun, but actually the moon is a poor mirror, reflecting only a fourteenth of the sunlight received. The earth reflects a third of its sunlight providing its satellite with earth’s light sixty times as bright as the best moonlight that’s why we sometimes see the whole moon faintly when he sun is lighting up only a narrow crescent.
