SPACE: Total Lunar Eclipse

From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 12:56:31 MDT

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    I'm forwarding this message from Steve Coles on the LA Gerontology list:

             "On Thursday, May 15th at 8:14 PM PDT, local weather permitting,
    a Total Lunar Eclipse should be visible for the first time in more than two
    years.
    It will be all over by 10:17 PM (with appropriate changes for your time zone),
    so don't forget to get out and take a look. Interestingly, I just read
    that the
    ancient Greeks knew that our planet had to be round by inferring its shape
    by looking at the curved (arc-like) shadow that the Earth cast on the Moon
    as the Earth passed between the Moon and the Sun. And this was long before
    Galileo got in trouble with the Catholic Church for postulating a Helicocentric
    Model of the solar system. I guess the Greek's were a little ahead of
    their time."

    Natasha Vita-More
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