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The word to know today
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Anomaly
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Anomaly is the old word for the Moon’s uneven motion. Her speed rises and falls with her distance, so she covers more ground on some days than on others. The cycle from her closest approach back to her closest approach is the anomalistic month, about twenty seven and a half days, and it is not the month the phases run on.
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The hardest body to predict in ancient astronomy was the Moon. She stands at eighteen degrees of Gemini tonight and reaches perigee this evening by UTC, the nearest point of her orbit this month, roughly three hundred and sixty nine thousand kilometers out. Twelve days ago she was at the far end of it. Over the next twenty four hours she covers fourteen degrees and seventeen minutes, against an average of about thirteen.
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The word for that unevenness is anomaly, from the Greek for irregular, and it gives its name to a month of its own. The anomalistic month runs perigee to perigee and lasts about twenty seven and a half days. It does not line up with the month of phases, which is twenty nine and a half, or with the month of signs, which is a little over twenty seven. Three months, none of them a whole number of days, none of them dividing evenly into the others.
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Ptolemy, in second century Alexandria, built more machinery into his account of the Moon than into anything else in the sky, and it still did not quite predict her. The astronomers who came after spent centuries patching it. What the astrologers took from the problem was far simpler. A Moon moving above her average was called swift in course and counted a small strength, and below it slow in course and a small weakness. Tonight she is swift, and peregrine, and closer to the Earth than she will be again this month. The tradition scored two of those three.
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From the shelf
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Al-Biruni
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Eleventh century Persia, where the Moon’s uneven motion is handled as a computational problem before it is treated as anything else.
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