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minus-squaresome_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoAround the north American eclipse in 2024 I learned that it’s purely by complete chance that the sun and moon appear the same size from an observer on earth. That’s fucking wild if you really think about it.
minus-squarebstix@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoYeah, it makes me wonder if there’s some mathematical balance about it that we just can’t prove. It does seem logical. If the moon was bigger, would it have an orbit further out? If the sun was bigger, would Earth have an orbit further out? Perhaps it just lines up that way. The other planets have more or no moons so there’s nothing comparable elsewhere in this solar system.
Around the north American eclipse in 2024 I learned that it’s purely by complete chance that the sun and moon appear the same size from an observer on earth.
That’s fucking wild if you really think about it.
Yeah, it makes me wonder if there’s some mathematical balance about it that we just can’t prove.
It does seem logical. If the moon was bigger, would it have an orbit further out? If the sun was bigger, would Earth have an orbit further out?
Perhaps it just lines up that way. The other planets have more or no moons so there’s nothing comparable elsewhere in this solar system.