| Show THE CRIB CHR hi OTERS ON THE MOON A little talk to boys on astronomy telling them what the they can ste nith a small telescope on a clear night and a little Info onnal chat about our next door neighbor AND WITH AN INDIAN LEGEND THROWN IN FOR FUNI 10 J N AIN X x ak X R t J v ja V VA A t ta az photo of the moon by courtesy of conegie cai Cr negie institution surface of moon pitted boys many of you have looted looked through my small telescope about three inches in diameter and about three feet long and looked at the moon some of you listening to what I 1 had to say thought you were going to see something as big and plain as this photo and you were disappointed when with difficulty you saw a shiny silver dollar in the sky instead of a great large wash tub hung up there tor for you to look at the reason for your disappointment was that this photo was taken thru a tie scope sixty six inches in diameter and mine is not three the telescope that took this picture is bigger than any one in utah most of you boys could stand upright and walk through the housing that holds that big glass tor for the inside of the ring is five and a halt half feet in diame ter your hat would just barely rub as you walked through 1 I would say if you took this photo and pinned it against the wall of the room and stepped off about thirty feet what you then saw would some what be like what you can see thru my glass volcanoes once on moon those scars pits saucers or dents in the surface of the moon ire lre to be volcanoes which once blew up erupted and formed those rings you see then another one blew up and made a ring or cone maybe right up against the first one or even over lapping its edge there is quite a jumble of them its amazing how smart some peo pie get by study just think of a man who can point a huge box car like iron tube at the moon take a a lot of very careful laborious measurements and then retire to compute what his figures tell him and turn on yau you and say the mountains next to that deep est crater hole are 17 ft high bight yet he can do it by trigonometry and logarithms and a lot of other stuff that s much too deep tor for you and me but learned in colleges devoted to higher mathematics and he can tell you how many tons in weight the moon is that a goin some the other day the of april the moon got directly in between us land the sun and shut off almost all its light or at least cut a big notch in the bright disc of the sun well we are moving the mon to is moving around us and yet men are so smart that tor for only I 1 had bought a nau almanac a booklet published by the astronomers of the U S naval observatory which gave in advance just when that shadow would tall fall on the earth how tar far out from san francisco how fast it would travel ri y to land what time it would be la in salt late lake city and all about it now how Is that tor for skill and be ing smart you and I 1 can t do it A 0 air on the moon broom if you were living on the moon your mother wouldn t say to you johnny shut the door the wind Is blowing dust on the pies I 1 for there isn t any wind to blow i she wouldn t eay say it a strange how long dust dusk or twilight laet last in these summer months why for al 11 most two hours we can see things at af ter the sun has set I 1 i no she wouldn t say that for on the moon just as soon as the eun sun has set an object out of light absolutely disappears it if you were down the side of the mountain picking pine nuts in the shade you d be blotted out couldn coulden t ae be seen for there ie Is no aqueous vapor in the air to re fleet light no twilight no dusk just inky night blacker than a stack of black cats al with their tala up to make it that much blacker on the very instant the sun sets i but it if mother said you can sleep from sun down to sun up instead of that being something like 24 hours it would be two weeks old dry lake beds on moon the brightest white places oa on the moon are rough ground while the slick darker bluer place it if you can so say are flat level sea hot toms or old dry lake beds in which no water has been tor for a long time but the floor is level even no spots to reflect light or break it up and it if we were on the mon looking at the sevier desert that you and I 1 are liv ing on here at delta our dry desert flat would look dark dull and be from there one of those patches you so often see on a full moon the reason of that Is granulated sugar Is all broken up and la Is white intensely white but put water on it melt it closer particle to particle and its hue changes at once the slicker or more polished it becomes the duller it appears so the big flat would look like one of those patches you see on OIL the moon whereas the oak city hills would jook intensely bright we never see but one side ot of the moon it turns around at the same speed that it revolves around us aa as some astronomers say dying down when the moon was young and snappy she turned around her own axis taster faster and had we been here we could have seen the other side for two weeks the sun suit shines on our side and tor for two weeks it is in the dark unless lit up by earth shine you can t see the dark side of the moon but if you were I 1 lit up I 1 on moon shine there a no telling what you cant can t sea see I 1 Z it the latin name for the moon Is luna and it was thought that too much looking at the moon made one loony whence we got the polite word lunatic daffy buggs nut ty oft off his dot it the moon got to gallivanting out of its path swerved badly it too would be off its dot but gravitation and centrifugal force hold it firmly to an orbit so certain that astronomers can compute down to the second almost where it will be where its shadow will be and where we will be at that very minute ailt it ig Is wonderful it if you took a five pound lard pall and partly tilled filled it with water and put a good stout cord on it you can whirl the bucket around your head so fast that it will be right out al most straight pulling hard against that cord to get awall away and yet the water wont spill out so with the moon it was flug oft off at a good lively clip but held fast by gracita tion to the earth and the string of gravitation holds it from flying oft off from the whirling power of cen trIfu gal force an indian legend on the moon one of the indian legends is quite interesting lor two weeks mrs moon she make blanket weave it on loom start out small and grow big and big aa as she weave grow big for two weeks but she get hun gry have to eat can t stand it no longer she turn her back t to 0 cook ion ton tire fire and dog put paw up and he scratch out all she weave and next moon she have it all to do over again and I 1 believe every word of it for don t we talk of the old lady in the moon moona and why not weaving a blanket I 1 d like to know and her dog do you suppose orion is the only one ome in the sky who has a dog FB sr A number of tax tildes were bought at public sale tuesday may ath in fillmore which were delinquent and subject to purchase A good long continued rain very general on the gib of great benefit to the farmer frank beckwith notary public |
