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TRIVIA TODAY - Friday, April 8, 2011
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Congratulations to "Mary E. Craig" who won this week's "Mind
Scrambler". Here was the scrambler:
You can take four of the five letters out of this word, but
the pronunciation never changes. What is the word?
ANSWER: Queue (remove the last four letters ? the
pronunciation is the same)
Enjoy!
Melissa
Email Melissa: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: ?The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.?
HINT: (1564-1616), English poet and playwright, widely
regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
Scientists now think that the Moon was formed when a Mars-
sized object crashed into our planet about 4.5 billion
years ago. The collision was so large that a huge spray of
material was ejected into space. The orbiting ring of
debris gathered itself into a sphere, and formed the Moon.
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In about 50 billion years from now, the Moon will stop
moving away from us. It will settle into a stable orbit,
taking about 47 days to go around the Earth (it takes 27.3
days today). At that point, the Earth and the Moon will be
tidally locked to each other. It will look like the Moon is
always in the same spot in the sky.
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From our perspective here on Earth, the Moon and the Sun
look approximately the same size in the sky. Of course,
the Sun is much much bigger than the Moon. The Sun happens
to be 400 times larger than the Moon, but it?s also 400
times further away.
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VIDEO CLIP
Apollo 11 - The Moon Landing
President Kennedy had challenged the nation to put a man
on the moon. And on July 20th, 1969, that dream became a
reality with the Apollo 11 crew of Neil Armstrong, Michael
Collins and Buzz Aldrin.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1362
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When the Moon was given its name, astronomers didn?t know
that there were moons orbiting other planets and so they
just called it the Moon. Now that we know there are other
moons, it all comes down to the capitalization. The Earth?s
moon is referred as ?the Moon?, with a capital ?M?.
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The gravitational pull of the Moon is not the only thing
pulling at the Earth?s water, the Sun is helping out too.
This is why we get very high and low tides from time to
time. When the gravity of the Moon and the Sun line up, we
get the biggest and smallest tides.
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Since the pull of gravity on the Moon is only 17% the pull
of gravity on the Earth, you?ll feel much lighter than you
do here on Earth. You would be able to jump six times
further and carry objects six times as heavy!
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
Look for a new mind scrambler in
Monday's issue of Trivia Today!
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Answer will be posted in Friday's Trivia Today. Good Luck!
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michele@gophercentral.com your complete name and
address to be shipped your prize.
Be sure to put "Winner" in the subject line.
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QUOTE: ?The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.?
ANSWER: William Shakespeare.
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