Re: What's happening with the moon?!

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From: Chris Malcolm
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:00

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In article <5bkg4v$4ts@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> wa2ise@ix.netcom.com(Robert F Casey) writes:

>This bugs me a bit too.  It's just screwey termonology, how "quarter
>moon" = "half moon".  At least noone calls a crescent moon a quarter
>moon because only 1/4 of its Earthside surface is lit by the Sun.  Now
>that would be a real pain in the *ss.  

>Does anyone call the other half moon (the one a week after full moon)
>the three quarter moon?  

Well, you could call it the decrescent moon, but folk would think you
pedantic. Better to call it gibbous. And while we're at it, who knows
what the balsamic moon is?

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Chris Malcolm     cam@dai.ed.ac.uk         +44 (0)131 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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From: cam@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Subject: Re: What's happening with the moon?!
Date: 1997/01/23
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