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13. Weird Orbit: Our moon is the only moon in the solar system that has a stationary, near-perfect circular orbit.
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False.
1) The *majority* of large moons in the solar system have "stationary" orbits. Actually, the technical term is "tidally locked."
2) The moons orbit is not a near-perfect circle. Its Eccentricity 0.0554 The Earth's orbit about the sun has an eccentricity of only 0.0167. Of Jupiter's moons, Ganymede has an eccentricity of 0.002. Io's is 0.041. Europa's is 0.009. Callisto's is 0.01. It took me exactly 30 seconds to google this information. Do I really need to look up any other moons or is this enough?
Where this guy says our moon is "the only one" there turn out to be many. And where he says our moon has a "near circular" orbit it turns out that compared to other moons ours is not circular at all. You have to wonder about a person who makes a claim that is so easily proven false.
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14. Moon Diameter: How does one explain the "coincidence" that the moon is just the right distance, coupled with just the right diameter, to completely cover the sun during an eclipse?
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The orbit is not a perfect circle, therefore the moon is *not* always just the right distance to cover the sun. This is called an annular eclipse. See this diagram:
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15. Spaceship Moon: As outrageous as the Moon-Is-a-Spaceship Theory is, all of the above items are resolved if one assumes that the moon is a gigantic extraterrestrial craft
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except that many of the above items are false.