No cheese has ever been found on the moon

Hi, today, I'm feeling awfully lazy to say much. But since Mid-Autumn Festival just passed on Monday, I thought its only fair that I post something about the moon.

Yes, we know that the full moon is Remus Lupin's BIGGEST fear of all.

In case you didn't know, the ancient (as well as modern) Chinese believe that the full moon which falls on the 15th day of the Chinese lunar calendar (农历八月初十五) each year (this year's being 12/09/2011) is the brightest of the year.

Hence, in areas with sizeable populations of ethnic Chinese, you would find many lanterns paraded out in the streets, mooncakes being sold and eaten (pricey nowadays), tea being brewed and drunk, and paper sky lanterns (孔明灯) crafted, wishes written upon them and released.

For this post, most of the info will come from a National Geographic page as well as a Wikipedia page.

The distance between the Earth and its moon averages about 238,900 miles (384,000 kilometers). The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles (3,476 kilometers). The moon's mass—the amount of material that makes up the moon—is about one-eightieth of the Earth's mass.


The moon orbits the Earth at an average speed of 2,300 miles an hour (3,700 kilometers an hour).


According to the "giant impact" theory, the young Earth had no moon. At some point in Earth's early history, a rogue planet, larger than Mars, struck the Earth in a great, glancing blow. Instantly, most of the rogue body and a sizable chunk of Earth were vaporized. The cloud rose to above 13,700 miles (22,000 kilometers) altitude, where it condensed into innumerable solid particles that orbited the Earth as they aggregated into ever larger moonlets, which eventually combined to form the moon. 


Though I am aware that recent discoveries (How recent? About a-week-and-half old news) have suggested otherwise, early Earth had two moons which probably collided and merged over the course of several hours.

Seeing double? No problem!

The rocks and soil brought back by Apollo missions are extremely dry; the moon has no indigenous water. However, the moon is bombarded by water-laden comets and meteoroids. Most of this water is lost to space, but some is trapped in permanently shadowed areas near both poles of the moon.


The Moon has a long association with insanity and irrationality; the words lunacy and loony are derived from the Latin name for the Moon, Luna. Philosophers such as Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full Moon induced insanity in susceptible individuals, believing that the brain, which is mostly water, must be affected by the Moon and its power over the tides, but the Moon's gravity is too slight to affect any single person. Even today, people insist that admissions to psychiatric hospitals, traffic accidents, homicides or suicides increase during a full Moon, although there is no scientific evidence to support such claims.



I'm going to leave a link to a moon-related song. A nice one for lovers, jazzy and helps set the mood. ;) Popularized by Michael Buble in recent times.



And another one from the sexy Shakira.. Lycanthropy FTW! :P