BramP's Stuff

A Blue Moon is the second full Moon that occurs in a single calendar month, and apparently on average there are 41 months per century with two full Moons in the same month. So a Blue Moon happens about once per 2.5 years, and there will be one in 2007, either in May, June, or July, depending on where you live.

Anyway, I post more often than that in my blog I think

In order not to have a completely silly and useless blog post, here are some other Moon-related things:

Orbiting the Moon

Putting satellites in orbit around the Moon is difficult, because Earth likes to pull them away, which destabilizes the orbit of the satellite. NASA is looking at solutions for that problem.

Leonids striking the Moon

Meteoroids hit the Moon more often than people expected.

Fake Moon dust

NASA researchers are faking moondust for experiments and other dusty things.

Geminids hit the Moon too

Not just the Leonids hit the Moon (see above), the Geminids too.

Metric Moon

When NASA returns to the Moon, they will use the metric system.

NASA stares at the Moon

When you stare at the Moon for a year, you see meteors strike (like the Leonids and Geminids mentioned above).

The Moon's a witness

Big meteors result in big craters, both on Earth and the Moon, but on the Moon the craters stay around a lot longer, preserving a lot more clues.