View Single Post
  #20 (permalink)  
Old Tue Dec 21, 2010, 01:25pm
26 Year Gap 26 Year Gap is offline
Aleve Titles to Others
 
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: East Westchester of the Southern Conference
Posts: 5,381
Send a message via AIM to 26 Year Gap
Quote:
Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
It's possible (I'm not going to look it up) that under a very strict definition, a "full moon" lasts only an instant. The moon would be a waxing gibbous the instant earlier and a waning gibbous an instant after.
But it is also factual that a lunar eclipse is a subset of the full moon.
__________________
Never hit a piņata if you see hornets flying out of it.
Reply With Quote