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Earth feels cosmic tugs

 
By Wayne Harris-Wyrick    Comment on this article Leave a comment
Published: December 2, 2008

This month, the big "cold, long nights” moon makes the highest tides of the year.

Ocean tides are caused primarily by the moon’s gravity, which pulls on the oceans directly under it a bit harder than it does on the rest of the planet because that’s the closest part. The slight gravitational tug sloshes the oceans up toward the moon.

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→Jupiter and Venus continue to dominate the evening twilight as the two brilliant "stars” in the west at sunset. Saturn rises around midnight and shines brightly until sunrise. The full moon occurs Dec. 12, and the new moon is Dec. 27.

→"Star of Wonder” makes its annual holiday appearance in December. Just what was the object shepherds saw on that night more than 2,000 years ago? Call 602-3761 or go online to www.sciencemuseumok.org for details.

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