The Moon in full: Full Moon by Michael Light, (with an essay by Andrew Chaikin), 1999, Jonathan Cape, 35 hbk, ISBN 0 224 05128 8

The Moon Is Full

Full Moon and Gastrointestinal Bleeding

Findings:Román, Soriano, Fuentes, Gálvez, and Fernández (2004) suggested that the number of hospital admissions related to gastrointestinal bleeding was somehow influenced by the phases of the Earth’s moon. Specifically, the authors claimed that the rate of hospital admissions to their bleeding unit is higher during the full moon than at other times. Their report contains a number of methodolog...

The full moon and admission to emergency rooms.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate an ancient hypothesis; the moon effect might increase incidence of injuries and hence admission of patients with trauma to Emergency Rooms (ERs) on full moon days. METHODS During thirteen months, 58000 trauma patients admitted in three hospitals that had the highest load of trauma patients in Tehran were studied. Due to lack of complete d...

The Moon Illusion Induced by Atmospheric Converging Light Effect

The mystery of the Moon illusion keeps pending, even if many physical and physiological explanations have been extensively attempted over thousands of years. Here I propose that the illusion may be related with the Earth’s atmospheric unusual optical effect. The Earth sphere shell atmosphere may form a convex lens to refract ray of light, this leads to that the ray of light emitted (reflected) ...

The Moon 35 years after Apollo: What’s left to learn?

With the cancellation of the Apollo program after Apollo 17 returned from the Moon in 1972, the focus of NASA switched to other areas of the Solar System. Study of the Moon did continue through analysis of the returned samples and remotely sensed data sets (both orbital and surface), as well as through Earth-based telescopic studies. In the 1990s, new orbital data were obtained from several mis...