What does the blue moon represent?

Answer 1

the sun is a middium sized star, made of gasses, very hot and has sunspots.

earth is a planet, has life on it , air, and water.

the moon is a sattle light, has extreme weather and it causes tides on earth.

Answer 2

A blue moon refers to the occurrence of an additional full moon within a calendar month. It doesn't have a specific symbolic meaning, but it is considered a rare event and has been associated with superstitions and folklore in some cultures.

Answer 3

The term "Blue Moon" has been accepted as meaning "the second full moon in a calendar month".

I'm not sure I can agree with this. The folk saying "Once in a blue moon" used to mean "very rare"; and yet, there are months with two full moons about every year. That's not all that "rare".

Answer 4

The meaning of "blue moon" has changed over the years; we can't be certain of what the phrase "once in a blue moon" originally meant.

Does the Moon ever actually look blue? Yes, it can; volcanic ash high in the atmosphere can cause the Moon to appear blue. But that's not the current "generally accepted" meaning. These days, we use the phrase "blue moon" to refer to the second full moon within a calendar month. The lunar cycle is 29 days long; months are (except for February) 30 or 31 days long. So if the Moon is full on the 1st or 2nd, the Moon will be full again on the 30th or 31st. That happens about every other year.

In fact, if there is a "blue moon" in January, there will usually be one in March of that year!

Answer 5

The unit of time we call a "month" is an approximation of the synodic period of the Moon. If months and synods were exactly the same, there would be 13 months in every year. Somebody must have thought 12 would be easier to work with.

Anyway, there's usually one full Moon every month, but not on the same date of every month. Since the Moon has 13 synods, each of 29 1/2 days, in 30- or 31-day months (28 or 29 in February), it happens a little earlier in each succeeding month.

Eventually there comes a month when the Full Moon is on the 1st or 2nd, and then again on the 30th or 31st. That second Full Moon in the same month is the "blue Moon." February will never get a blue Moon; it's just too short.

Answer 6

They are both satellites to an object which means that they are similar. The moon revolves around the earth, while it is also orbiting around the sun. There is really no difference, but the moon is a satellite that revolves around an object that is turning, and the earth is an object that only turns around the sun.

Answer 7

If you had 3 balls the first one (the sun) would stay still the second one (the earth) would move around the first one, and the third one, (the moon) would move around the second one while the second one moved around the first one. Get it?

Answer 8

• The Earth is about 4 times as big (in diameter)
• The Moon is full of craters
• The Earth has a much higher albedo (percentage of reflected light)
• The color is also quite different

Answer 9

The main difference between the two is their size. The Moon is a quarter of the diameter of the Earth, and has only 1/81 of its mass. Most of the Moon's differences stem from this size difference. The Moon is too small to retain an atmosphere, so on the Moon there is no wind, no oxygen for breathing, and no life. The lack of weather on the Moon means that any marks on the Moon, be they craters from impacts or footprints from astronauts, will stay there for a very long time because there is no water or wind to destroy them, unlike on Earth. The Moon's diminutive nature also means that you would weight less on it because of the reduced gravity. When you watch old film of astronauts on the moon, it may not seem like they weigh only a tenth of what they would on Earth, but that is because all the extra gear they need in their suits to keep them alive weighs a lot. The sky would also be much more spectacular on the Moon. Our atmosphere obscures a lot of the night sky, and because of the dispersion of the Sun's light through our atmosphere, we are virtually blind to the sky during the day, instead seeing only our blue sky. On the moon this problem does not exist, so one would be treated to a constant, clear view of the Earth and the stars that fill our local part of the universe.

Answer 10

No. The term blue moon refers to an extra full moon in a month or in a season, not its colour.

but even though the term might not be refering to a blue colored moon, the moon can appear to turn blue as the ozone layer (which makes the sky look blue) can act a blue gel which gives a tint of blue to the light coming of the moon

Yes a moon could be composed of blue minerals but the earth moon is not.