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Old 15-07-2009, 11:34 PM
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The age of the Moon

The length of the synodic month is 29.5306 days. It would wait us therefore that the full Moon falls after 14.77 days and the first quarter after 7.38 days.
But these are mean and very varying values. This is due to the fact that the Moonų

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Old 16-07-2009, 01:38 AM
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You have been busy doing calculations Ricci.
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Old 17-07-2009, 11:55 PM
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Well, that was interesting reading. You have put alot of work in there!
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That's a lot of work mate !
Interesting read. Well done.
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