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Does the moon reflect sunlight, or is it a source of light on it's own?


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Ok, so here's the challenge.

Ask your local Mama and Papa store where the moonlight comes from. Or the family.

Apparently it comes from the moon.

Bless them.

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1 minute ago, pgrahmm said:

I knew a lady from the Philippines that thought the moon in the US & the moon in the PI were 2 different moons....

We used to ask the Filipina bar girls which was closer - the moon or Cebu. The answer was often the moon because they could see it.

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I used to think that when the tide went out, the water just all went to the other side ---didn't believe my older Sister when she told me its all about the Moon... (although she did tell me a lot of other Mincey's in our childhood)

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As ridiculously fascinating as this story is.

 

Let me concentrate on the real world. I need to go to the Store to buy cat food.

 

......thats where this thread features in my priorities!

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The answer to this question is that:

 

aa.  Our Moon reflects light.

 

bb.  Our Moon also emits radiation, of its own.

 

I am sure that everybody here understands Black Body Radiation.  Correct?

 

And so, even if our Moon was by itself, far, far out in space...

 

Still, we would be able to calculate the amount of radiation (even light) that our Moon would radiate.

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You know, sometimes I wonder why I reply to some of these questions....

 

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