Earthquakes to births: small round beliefs attached ... - Atlantico.fr

Tonight, the full moon will be more impressive and brighter than usual. This is the super moon. This occurs when two conditions are met: the moon is full and is at its closest point to Earth. Indeed, the focus of our single satellite is elliptical, so it has a perigee (nearest point to Earth, 356,410 km) and apogee (farthest point, 406,740 km).

The Moon will be tonight at 357,000 km from Earth and can appear up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than usual … if the sky is clear and the limited light pollution. This will be the largest full moon of the year, with the May 25, where it was already close to the Earth.

However, no particular risk of catastrophe. In 2011, there were earthquakes in Japan related to the proximity of a super moon. However, researchers ensure that the reduction of the distance between the Earth and the Moon (of about 35,000 kilometers from the mean) is not sufficient to cause changes and gravitational influence tectonic forces, said Maxisciences. “Many studies have been done on this kind of subject by USGS scientists and others. They found nothing significant” , said John Bellini, a geophysicist at the Institute U.S. Geological Survey.

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tides are affected by this event: they should be slightly larger than usual

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machine should not whiten more than usual. If according to a popular belief, the light of the moon is the cause of the bleaching, the researchers found that the pigments are mainly altered by ultraviolet rays. However, the amount of UV emitted from the Moon is very low: about 500,000 times smaller than the direct sunlight

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Other beliefs are associated with this planet: we give birth soon, our hair would grow faster and mental disorders are particularly vivid when it rises in the sky. A 1987 study in the United States has even shown that 80% of nurses and 64% of physicians in emergency departments believe in the influence of the moon. In another, published in 1995, 81% of professionals linked to psychiatric sector believe its effects (against 43% of the total population).

To have the heart net, of Toulouse researchers in 1992 analyzed 2,478 entries in a psychiatric emergency service without increasing discover the full moon days. More recently, Geneviève Belleville, psychology researcher at Laval University, and his team for 3 years (2005-2008), recognized by emergency patients came to the Hotel-Dieu de Lévis Hospital and Sacred Heart of Montreal. Again, the researchers found that emergency room visits are more common during a full moon (or during the three days preceding or following) at other times.

Two Los Angeles researchers also analyzed 11,000 births between 1974 and 1978. The verdict? The frequency of births is not linked to the phases of the moon.

Intestinal worms are also often attached to a lunar influence. This is due to the time (about 28 days) of the full cycle of the parasite digestive pinworm. Eggs ingested through contaminated food hatch in the stomach and the larvae migrate to the intestines to give adults. Two to four weeks later, females begin to make eggs that are then found in the stool. This parasitic thrust is not necessarily linked to the cycle of the moon.

If in doubt, you can still prepare suppositories in addition to your telescope for the event tonight. The next super moon will take place in August 2014.