Talk:Moon
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Article name
[change source]Hello. I was wondering if it was really necessary to have this article named as "The Moon". Shouldn't it just be "Moon" or "Earth's moon" ect? I would like other's thoughts on this. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 07:16, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
Invisible during the day
[change source]But during the day the light of the sun is too bright for us to see the Moon. Really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.255.23.124 (talk • contribs)
Space junk
[change source]Noted incidents of space junk hitting the Moon:
- March 2022: Rocket parts are expected to fall on the Moon on March 4, 2022; Bill Gray (a mathematician and physicist) thinks that the parts are not[1] from the carrier rocket that sent the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite "to a gravitationally-stable Lagrange point",[2] in 2015.[3]
- Source (after the event), [1]. 89.8.77.210 (talk) 06:21, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Sources
[change source]- ↑ https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/verden/2022/03/04/manen-er-i-ferd-med-a-bli-truffet-av-romskrot/#:~:text=Tre%20tonn%20roms%C3%B8ppel%2C%20sannsynligvis%20en,lage%20et%20stort%2C%20evig%20krater.&text=Fredag%20treffer%20rakettrestene%20baksiden%20av,rundt%209.300%20kilometer%20i%20timen. Dagsavisen. Retrieved March 4, 2022
- ↑ Mellow, Craig (August 2014). "Al Gore's Satellite". Air & Space/Smithsonian. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
- ↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-chunk-of-spacex-rocket-is-going-to-slam-into-the-moon-180979470/
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.8.77.210 (talk • contribs) 06:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
Red-linked refs
[change source]There are one or two, and there should not be. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:24, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
- It's just the name of a journal. The link can easily be removed. Kk.urban (talk) 18:36, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Gravity
[change source]Yes, a ball will fall more slowly, but what about a feather? I raise this question, because the article says "Because the Moon has no atmosphere, there is no air resistance, so a feather will fall as fast as a hammer." And that raised the question of gravity versus air resistance. Also, the ref for the quoted sentence is a link to the simple English Wikipedia article on Galileo. That is too broad a reference, since the ref'd article is about the man, and a reader would have to search through to find anything that would provide a justification of the claim that a hammer and a feather would fall at the same velocity. There is a video of an astronaut on the Moon dropping a hammer and a feather (primary source : https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=would+a+hammer+and+a+feather+fall+at+the+same+speed+on+the+Moon%3f&mid=6892B851C88056AC77056892B851C88056AC7705&FORM=VIRE). The feather definitely falls a lot faster than it would on the Earth, but does the hammer fall at a slower speed than on the Earth? It should, but . . . . Kdammers (talk) 16:27, 10 May 2025 (UTC)