Space week: The moon is NOT spherical

Space week: The moon is NOT spherical

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day, day, day, day, this week
here at fact of the day.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
It's a space week influenced influence, I'd say by a
recent trip I undertook, okay, find out more soon to space,
not to space?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Did you say find out more soon?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Find out more so? And I said stay, saying stay changed.
You've got me in, you've got today's fact of the day.
This pickled my little brain, blew my mind. Okay, the
moon is not spherical.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
No, it's not ex fact, I've seen it.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
It's not a rugby ball. Is that it is.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
He's gonna sit here and tell us the moon's a triangle.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
The moon is technically known as an oblate spheroid. Oh okay,
I'm here holding this is this is very actually very timely.
I'm here, I'm holding a little minuture basketball. I'm squeezing
it from top and bottom.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
That it's not like that the moon.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
To see it, the moon is egg shaped, some described
as lemon shaped. But it's a squatty egg. Then it
is the problem and we see it sphericle. You imagine
you're holding an egg upright like it sits in the tray,
and you're like, that's egg shaped. Now, turn it on
its end, so you can only see it from the

(01:34):
end that that's around a sort of circumpany you're seeing
it from the angle you're seeing, and the end that
points towards the Earth is a little fatter. Oh yeah,
you know how the egg has a skinny in and
around the end. So we're looking tap shaped, is it?
Because a little bit? It's not huge, but it certainly

(01:55):
isn't spherical, So it's not shaped like an egg. It's
thought because when it first formed and it was like
just on of this big ball of liquid molten goo,
and the gravity of the Earth pulled it a little
bit out of shape. We've got the fatter end facing
us like a vacuum. Yeah. Yeah, I've googled it, and
NASA is saying the same thing as Vorn. I'll google it.

(02:18):
I hope you just didn't think I plucked this from
just my own thoughts and preyers. I did. I didn't
know if you were getting it from space authority. I
didn't know if you were getting it from your communities
and message boards and Facebook that you get a lot
of your information.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
From perfect sphere.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
They say, yeah, in perfect sphere, Yeah, I can see
like an and you know. Also, it's twenty five percent
the size of Earth. Yeah, the like you could fit
four moons across our equator. Yeah, it's equator. Some astronomers
believe that that makes it close enough to our size
we could be considered the double planet rather than a

(02:53):
planet with a satellite moon an orbiting satellite.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Okay, should we be moving to the moon. Sort of feels.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Better than a great hurry to move to the Moon. No,
I'll be gone then, not until there's some good Wi Fi.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Socially silent will be even better up.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
There because the satellites are porting towards Earth, and they
way closer to Earth than they are the Moon.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Are they Yeah, I sort of imagine they were in space. Yeah,
right out there, right out there, near.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
The Moon, like you could be on Mars and just
pick up two bars. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, two bars
is all you need. Yeah, that's all you need.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
It depends on if I'm sending a video, I prefer
more bars bars. I will send a picture. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Fun. I recently bought a new couple of outlets Mesh
to mesh my wife beautiful, fantastic John. Maybe we just
need one of those International Space station just to mesh
it back to.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Your account because I'm on unlimited by all means. Please,
you need to get another account unlimited.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
So today's Fact to the day is that the moon
is not sphereic Oh