MOON ORBIT IS WRONG! (?)

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I don't have any skills pertaining to astronomy, so I do not know if this is true or not:


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MOON ORBIT IS WRONG! RISES FLAT @ 120 DEGREES & 52 MN.

Posted By: CliffMickelson <Send E-Mail>
Date: Saturday, 8 May 2004, 1:25 p.m.

Well, folks, This situation is getting hard to be glib about. What I witnessed last night was very wrong. Read on and you will see that there is something serious going on here.

CliffMickelson

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Greetings, Cliff

I Watched the moon come up last night. I used "clock" positions about 8:30p.m. and it was pretty near a 7:00 positon on the clock. Got up about 2:30, again looked at the moon, it had only reached the approximate of 1:00am on the "clock" ...? Something is wrong here! Wonder if the earth is slowing down in her rotations? If so, this might explain the "shifting of the N. Pole" and slowly slipping out of "orbit"..
vkd

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Greetings VKD!

YES! I saw EXACTLY the same thing. It took forever for the moon to move.

The Transit of the moon was, (according to the US Navy chart, at 3:30 AM. Yet, the moon had barely moved a quarter of the way across the sky by 3:30 AM, much less passed it's meridian!

Not only that, but it is in a very odd trajectory. It is moving up from extremely low on the Southeastern horizon and moving to the West, north west at a skewed angle.

This flattened trajectory was even more pronounced last night than ever before. You are right. Everyone needs to sit up and pay attention to this!

SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG HERE!

Also:

Last night's moon was late again as usual

Here are the numbers for my latitude and longitude:

According to the US Navy Chart Moon rise was due at 12:41 AM May 8, 2004.

However, the moon did not rise until 1:33 AM.

That's a difference of 52 min. compared to 47 the day before and 43 the day before that. There is a common ratio here of a five min. increase each time.

THAT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN ASTRONOMICAL TERMS!

Now, for the kicker. Not only did Mr. Loony Moony rise late, but once again he moved 4 degrees farther west at the point of rising! Point of rising was at 124 degrees east, southeast off of magnetic north.

Think about that for a moment! That is only 56 degrees away from DUE south!

Why is the moon rising at this latitude only 56 degrees away from due south with less than 6 weeks to go before the summer solstice? By now, that sucker should have been transiting high in the sky. Since the moon is supposed to be in a more or less equatorial orbit, that means that once the northern hemisphere begins to tilt away from the sun, the moon will disappear from view all together in no time at all.

Here's an off the wall thought!

You don't suppose someone knows something we don't, and is moving the moon into a safe orbit?

Either that, or the Earth has developed a very pronounced wobble.

One thing is for sure. This "ain't" normal!

I have a bad feeling about this. I have never seen the moon in such a flat and angled trajectory.

I may have to buy some futures on Green Cheese!

-CliffMickelson

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FBI Links Almanacs With Terror Planning

Monday, December 29, 2003

WASHINGTON — The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs (search), cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

In a bulletin sent Christmas Eve to about 18,000 police organizations, the FBI (search) said terrorists may use almanacs "to assist with target selection and pre-operational planning."

It urged officers to watch during searches, traffic stops and other investigations for anyone carrying almanacs, especially if the books are annotated in suspicious ways.

"The practice of researching potential targets is consistent with known methods of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations that seek to maximize the likelihood of operational success through careful planning," the FBI wrote.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the bulletin this week and verified its authenticity.

"For local law enforcement, it's just to help give them one more piece of information to raise their suspicions," said David Heyman, a terrorism expert for the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (search). "It helps make sure one more bad guy doesn't get away from a traffic stop, maybe gives police a little bit more reason to follow up on this."

The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, "the product of legitimate recreational or commercial activities." But it warned that when combined with suspicious behavior — such as apparent surveillance — a person with an almanac "may point to possible terrorist planning."

"I don't think anyone would consider us a harmful entity," said Kevin Seabrooke, senior editor of The World Almanac (search). He said the reference book includes about a dozen pages out of its 1,000 pages total listing the world's tallest buildings and bridges but includes no diagrams or architectural schematics. "It's stuff that's widely available on the Internet," he said.

The publisher for The Old Farmers Almanac said Monday terrorists would probably find statistical reference books more useful than the collections of Americana in his famous publication of weather predictions and witticisms.

"While we doubt that our editorial content would be of particular interest to people who would wish to do us harm, we will certainly cooperate to the fullest with national authorities at any level they deem appropriate," publisher John Pierce said.

The FBI said information typically found in almanacs that could be useful for terrorists includes profiles of cities and states and information about waterways, bridges, dams, reservoirs, tunnels, buildings and landmarks. It said this information is often accompanied by photographs and maps.

The FBI urged police to report such discoveries to the local U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force.

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