Category Archives: Astronomy

Understanding Tides

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Clive Best

There has been a long animated discussion about tides at Wattsupwiththat which highlighted a confusion about both the causes of tides and their strength. Several people are adamant that tides are a universal phenomena experienced by any object near a … Continue reading →

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The Moon’s eccentric orbit

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Clive Best

As far as I can tell no long term study of lunar eccentricity has been done, so  I decided to begin investigating this myself, even though I am a complete novice in astronomical calculations. The key resource for all planetary … Continue reading →

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