Naming the Man in the Moon[zz]# Astronomy - 天文
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Want a lunar crater named after you? It certainly helps if you are an ancient
Greek, or a famous, dead, male astronomer.
by Paul Hodge
The "man in the moon" of my childhood, that splotchy pattern of dark-lava
flows and chalky highlands, actually reminds me of a woman: a glowing, cameo
silhouette of Whistler's mother. And why not? In Roman times the deity
personified by the moon was feminine (Luna) and many of my female friends
instinctively identify with her 29.5-day revolution cycle.
However, l
Greek, or a famous, dead, male astronomer.
by Paul Hodge
The "man in the moon" of my childhood, that splotchy pattern of dark-lava
flows and chalky highlands, actually reminds me of a woman: a glowing, cameo
silhouette of Whistler's mother. And why not? In Roman times the deity
personified by the moon was feminine (Luna) and many of my female friends
instinctively identify with her 29.5-day revolution cycle.
However, l