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June 03, 2004
Trivia last night
We continue do do trivia every couple of weeks or so and usually place 2nd or so, sometimes taking the win. Anyway, last night had a question which disgusted me at the lack of common sense some teams showed. The question was "Of the three astronomical objects, the Moon, Sun and Earth, which is between the other two at the time of a Lunar Eclipse." The answer is the Earth occulding the Moon (would be the Moon in the case of a Solar Eclipse) but what was amazing was that two teams actually submitted "The Sun" as an answer (and Matt on our team liked this too as a first impression). I just can't imagine how little common sense understanding of the Solar System you have to have to think that the Sun could ever come between the Earth and the Moon (and us alive to tell of it ;) ).
By the way, if the Sun's center of gravity was placed between that of the Earth and Moon, it would massively cover the Earth and Moon so everyone on Earth would not just be cooked by heat but actually inside the Sun. The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,000 km and the Moon orbits only 384,400 km from the Earth. Numbers from the excellent site The Nine Planets/
Posted by aarondf at June 3, 2004 12:00 PM
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