The Moon is Missing But I Can See Uranus


My son Alex's homework Monday night was to look at the moon and then both describe and sketch what he saw, but we couldn't see the moon from our house, and so we walked-- in the dark-- into the middle of a muddy field in the park to see if we could spot it there, but no luck, and we even tried again just before bed-- but still no luck-- and so I checked on the internet to make sure the moon wasn't in eclipse or orbiting Mars for a month or hiding in the giant gravity field of Uranus, but the internet informed me that in the Northern Hemisphere on November 14th the moon should have been big and gibbous, but we still couldn't find it, and so Alex had to write down that he couldn't find the moon and I am wondering if any other kids in his class were able to find the moon, or if they just cheated and pretended to find the moon, and I am also wondering: Where has the moon gone?

5 comments:

zman said...

"Big and gibbous" would be a good name for for an alt-nerd-rock band. Or an adult movie.

Dave said...

big and gibbous dave and the gibbons.

Anonymous said...

I've done the moon journal twice. Sometimes it's out during the day.

Dave said...

i will tell alex to look!

Dave said...

alex says, "i'm doing school then."

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