Astrophysicist here: This is caused by the moon developing a crescent shape at each end of the path, resulting in a boomerang-like behavior where the rotational velocity of the moon causes it to return back to where it was thrown.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
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You spelled Astralphysicist wrong.
Wait a minute
Fucking lol!
It's beautiful, but unfortunately a fake. This is from a reddit comment for years ago:
This is supposed to represent a lunar analemma, but it's completely faked. And not just in the sense that it's a composite, in the sense that the relative sizes and positions are completely made up.
This is an actual analemma, with correct scaling:
Apologies, I am but a humble reposter and didn't check :,-)
No worries, I was just checking if it was by the guy that usually shares his setups. But then I found the other thread instead
This shape is called an analemma for anyone looking for more info.
I wonder if that's the inspiration for the infinity symbol?
analemma
Watson or Stone?
Thompson actually
Stone if given the choice.
This is beautiful!
It sure is. I audibly gasped!
No offense to the moon but I could go way further than that in 28 days.
Maybe in a couple of months, but it really lets its fitness go in the off-season.
Not taking into account movement forward/backward, and with an admittedly very crude measurement method, the total path is roughly 174,875 km. If you took a 7.4 hr flight every day for 28 days straight*, you could possibly beat the moon. Probably give a Taylor Swift a run for her money, too.
*If you only did "work days", you'd have to fly 10.3 hours a day.
Does it complete the infinity symbol in the next 28 days?
No, it actually just appears back on the left side of the path again. No one can explain why, but it almost killed the Apollo guys. Had they been there one day later… Of course they had to go at an almost full moon. Not much to land on, otherwise.
I'd love a real answer to this lol
Me too!
hello can I have your house please
Where’s it goin
You did something wrong, the moon appears upside down
/s
Great shots though