Re: Pull of the Moon

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

> In the early Precambrian, the effect would have been even more
> pronounced, and there would have been MANY more eclipses per year 
> than
> there are today.  This phenomenon may have had a significant 
> cooling
> effect over the globe, to the extent that any future computer models 
> that
> address Precambrian climates may have to include that data into 
> their
> dataset.


Hmmm.....
One of the causative factors in the Snowball Earth hypothesis?

Methinks the Philmeister has had his quota of caffeine for today,

<pb>
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