FACTS ABOUT THE MOON: A FREEWRITE

If,once in a lifetime you see a blue moon don't think your eyes are playing tricks on you. It's caused by dust in our upper atmosphere;ice crystals are what make you see rings around the moon.

Over the centuries magical powers have been attributed to the moon, it has been said to bring on lunacy which affect the growth of plants, eyes of cats, spots of panthers, functions of women and activities of ghosts. France once add a law against cutting timber except during a warning moon. The moon, and to a lesser degree the sun does cause the ocean tides because of their gravitational pull. But a common mistake of primitive people is to think that everything timed in the same rhythm as the moon is caused by it.

All the moon gazing probing and measuring has never solved the problem is origin. one theory is that it began as a planet got two near the massive Earth was captured and turned into a satellite. Another is that the moon is the result of giant tidal bulge forming on our earth's surface separating the spinning off into space. If the latter theory is true scientist says there will be too clues the moon will consist of lighter material than the earth and the earth would be left with a scar. As a matter of fact the moon does whale less, and the Pacific Ocean does have a scar like bottom of basaltic rocks instead of the granite rocks usually found near the earth.If once in a lifetime you see a blue moon don't think your eyes are playing tricks on you. It's caused by dust in our upper atmosphere ice crystals are what make you see rings around the moon.