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The naming schema actually tripped me up for a week or so. My brain's initial conception of the concepts was earth-relative, so I mapped it as: Sol = big, it'
by mastercheif 1mo ago
The naming schema actually tripped me up for a week or so.
My brain's initial conception of the concepts was earth-relative, so I mapped it as:
Sol = big, it's the sun
Luna = medium, in-between sun and earth, space
Terra = small, terrestrial
- inexcf 1mo agoPretty weird when the moon is as much between earth and sun as the earth is between the moon and the sun.
- kgwgk 1mo agoAnd when it’s in between we cannot even see it (unless it’s exactly in line).
- hamandcheese 1mo agoAnd when it’s in between we cannot even see it (when it’s exactly in line).
- kgwgk 1mo agoWe can see it’s there though - I’d say that also counts.
- hamandcheese 1mo agoI believe you were referring to one kind of eclipsed and with my subtle edit I was referring to a different kind of eclipse :)
- kgwgk 1mo agoI can think of one single class of eclipse where the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun (the original comment was about “in-between sun and earth”).
- phoghed 1mo agoGoing to start a conspiracy theory that there’s a secret eclipse where the moon goes behind the sun and they won’t let us see it
- hamandcheese 1mo agoSometimes Earth is the one that is in between.
- ModernMech 1mo agoIt tripped me up because I was going by distance. I thought Terra was the base model and Luna was the mid model because it’s further away.
- 6thbit 1mo agoSame here. Thought Luna was for “moonshots” and sol for.. sunshots? While keeping Terra earthly. But alas