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[Beerina]

Yikes :rolleyes: (http://www.reformation.org/flat-earth-exposed.html)

So that the moon, in eclipse, passes through the entire earth's shadow in 7 hours shows the moon's daily orbit is 24 hours, i.e. an earth-centric universe, rather than one month?

Let's run some numbers. The moon is about 238k miles away. Neglecting the Earth's radius, that gives us a circle 747,000 miles around. If the moon travels this in 30 days, that gives us a speed of about 25,000 mpday, or a little over 1000mph, 1041 to be more exact than our rounding allows already.

Assuming the earth's shadow at the moon's distance is roughly the size of the earth, i.e. 7900 miles, the moon should thus travel this distance in, oh, I don't know, about 7.6 hours. And given he talks about the region of "total eclipse", not the penumbra, it's a little bit less than that since the sun, although 800kmiles in diameter, is 93 million away, so won't shrink it all that much.