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	Lunar effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lunar effect is the supposed influence of the moon and its phases on human behaviour.
		The origins of this belief are probably prehistoric and one reason for the global ubiquity of moon worship.
		The only other mammal with a cycle length close to the length of the lunar cycle is the opossum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_effect (763 words)

	Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The lunar crust is composed of a variety of primary elements, including uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminium and hydrogen, as determined by spectroscopy.
		Lunar Prospector results, however, indicate the presence of hydrogen in the permanently shadowed regions, which could be in the form of water ice.
		The neutron spectrometer on Lunar Prospector confirmed the presence of excess hydrogen at the lunar poles, which some have speculated to be due to the presence of water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moon (4754 words)

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		Briefly, lunar soils are derived principally by comminution of the underlying rocks by hypervelocity impact.
		Although other processes affect an aging soil, it is the iron particles in and on grains, primarily in glass-welded agglutinates, that principally account for the darkening and reddening of lunar soil reflectance with age of exposure on the lunar surface, as well as for the decrease in spectral contrast of the electronic transition bands.
		A second order effect of the enhanced spectral contrast of the Christiansen emission peak is a systematic shift of the peak to shorter wavelength due to the increased steepness of the falloff in emissivity toward the reststrahlen band on its long wavelength side (Salisbury and Walter, 1989; Henderson et al., 1996).
	speclib.jpl.nasa.gov /archive/JHU/becknic/lunar/lunar.txt (3418 words)

	Medical/full moon fun
		It's worth mentioning that there are people who firmly believe in the lunar effect, such as J. Sitar, member of the esteemed institution "Interni ambulance polikliniky Kurim Okresniho ustavu narodniho zdravi Brno-venkov" and a spiritual member of the Abianian school of thought.
		Therefore, on the basis of this study, the hypothesis that lunar phase may influence the process of birth is disproved.
		This study examined the effects of the full moon on daily absenteeism rates in a large organization while correcting for autocorrelation and controlling for the effects of the day of the week, month, and proximity to a holiday.
	tafkac.org /medical/full_moon_fun.html (1287 words)

	Neuroscience for Kids - The Full Moon
		The influence of the moon and behavior has been called "The Lunar Effect" or "The Transylvania Effect." The belief that the full moon causes mental disorders and strange behavior was widespread throughout Europe in the middle ages.
		Lunar phases are not related to the occurrence of acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death.
		Effect of lunar cycle on temporal variation in cardiopulmonary arrest in seven emergency departments during 11 years.
	faculty.washington.edu /chudler/moon.html (1913 words)

	Lunar Tides
		This is because the whole planet is influenced by the gravitational effect of the moon and the planet is a liquid with the continents floating like icebergs on the surface.
		Although the effect of gravity is instant (or perhaps at the speed of light), and changes the molecular patterns of all the planet right to the core (land and water alike), the resultant movement of water relative to a rising or sinking land mass takes time.
		The only effect of the moon is that the water molecules alter their motion slightly, along with all the rest of the molecules of the planet, so the whole mass elevates a miniscule amount (relative to the diameter of the planet).
	www.this-magic-sea.com /TIDE.HTM (1664 words)

	Martha Talks Back: Reader Questions Answered - MSN Encarta
		Despite many studies attempting to prove the "lunar effect," as it's called, there is no conclusive evidence that it exists.
		People who believe in the lunar effect often say we only need to look at the tides to see how powerful the moon can be.
		A more plausible argument for the existence of the lunar effect is that, at least before the widespread use of electricity, people could see outside better at night when the moon was full.
	encarta.msn.com /column_questionmoon/Can_a_full_moon_really_cause_people_to_act_strangely.html?GT1=3584 (493 words)

	full moon and lunar effects
		Lunar effects that have been found have little or nothing to do with human behavior, e.g., the discovery of a slight effect of the moon on global temperature,* which in turn might have an effect on the growth of plants.
		Anecdotal evidence for lunar effects is not hard to find and reporters know that one good anecdote trumps ten scientific studies when it comes to reader interest, even though such evidence is unreliable for establishing significant correlations.
		The fact that the human body is mostly water largely contributes to the notion that the moon should have a powerful effect on the human body and therefore an effect on behavior.
	skepdic.com /fullmoon.html (2838 words)

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		The latest lunar research from Leeds University shows that GPs in Britain are likely to see 30,000 more patients than normal tomorrow because of the effect of the full moon earlier this week.
		Diet, too, is subject to a lunar effect, with an 8 per cent increase reported in average meal sizes on the day of the full moon, and a 25 per cent hike in drinking rates.
		Internal body rhythms may also be implicated, as could the effects on the pineal gland of the light emitted by the moon or a slightly warmer temperature triggered by the full moon.
	www.perceptions.couk.com /uef/fullmoon.txt (1099 words)

	Opposition Effect
		It is an example of the "Opposition Effect" or "shadow hiding".
		Lunar soil has an open structure with many areas of deep shadow.
		The opposition effect was so named because it is substantially responsible for the brightness of the Moon and Mars at opposition, i.e.
	www.sundog.clara.co.uk /atoptics/oppos1.htm (188 words)

	Werewolf.com Discussion Boards - the day moon
		Anecdotal evidence for lunar effects is not hard to find and reporters lap it up, even though such evidence is unreliable for establishing significant correlations.
		The fact that the human body is mostly water largely contributes to the notion that the moon should have a powerful effect upon the human body and therefore an effect upon behavior.
		Many of the misconceptions about the moon's gravitational effect on the tides, as well as several other lunar misconceptions, seem to have been generated by Arnold Lieber in The Lunar Effect (1978), republished in 1996 as How the Moon Affects You.
	www.werewolf.com /vb/showthread.php?t=728 (2138 words)

	The Unity of the Sun, Earth and Moon
		The effect is known to be due to energetic particles that are precipitated into the upper atmosphere, producing electrical currents that perturb the magnetic field (i.e., electromagnetic induction).
		Lunar effects are more dynamic than previously realized because the effects are due to interaction with the Fields and particle flow (electrostatic repulsion, plasma torus, bow shock, etc.), not gravity.
		However, the real effect is non-gravitational, and involves the Moon's interaction with particle flow along the Field lines of FEM (an effect that originated in the polarization of the vacuum during the protoplanetary stage).
	www.livingcosmos.com /unity.htm (8298 words)

	Lunar Influence on the Production of Electrochemical Colloidal Silver
		Early on, the Koliskos observed the effects that the moon’s phases had on solutions of silver chloride, and that profound effects could be viewed during lunar eclipses.
		Most are familiar with the lunar effect on tides, and going back into the distant past, many understood that the moon exerts a powerful influence on water itself.
		The medicinal effects of many folk remedies were also governed by the phases of the moon due to fluctuating moisture content.
	www.borderlands.com /journal/lunar.htm (2232 words)

	Illusions and Explanations: the Gauquelin Effect and Birth Order by Graham Douglas
		I suggest that lunar effects are not confined to writers and politicians, but should be viewed as occurring with a phase shift in all eminent groups, and likewise a solar variation.
		Also we would predict an effect on eminence graphs, so that the level of eminence would be expected to be lower among those born during a conjunction phase, although this is not simple to predict, due to the curvilinear nature of the eminence phenomenon (Ertel 1993).
		Until these effects are shown to be insufficient to account for the planetary deviations the possibility remains that the Gauquelin Effect is essentially a soli-lunar one.
	cura.free.fr /xxx/30doug3.html (6876 words)

	Dr. Cutler's 1980 published paper, Lunar and Menstrual Phase Locking
		Then each cycle onset was recorded in relation to its phase of the lunar cycle, in an attempt to determine whether certain phases of the moon were associated with a disproportionately high incidence of menses onsets.
		to conclude that there was an endogenous lunar period cycle-but one could equally well consider that the maintenance of the rhythm was due to exogenous influences other than photic, for example, gravitational, which is powerfully affected by the lunar positions, as may also be the case for atmospheric electrical variation.
		Since menstrual and lunar cycles are repetitive, a circular chart (the lunar clock) for recording data was devised to tabulate the repeating cyclic phenomena in the natural form of a clock.
	www.athenainstitute.com /sciencelinks/lunarandmenst.html (2765 words)

	MARKET TIMING BY THE MOON & THE SUN
		Lunar nutation is superimposed on this process to give the 18.6 year nutation cycle.
		The lunar phase effect is not repeatable for a wide range of aberrant human behaviours, which castes doubt on the few positive findings.
		Lunar phase cycles can be linked with rainfall patterns, while sunny weather has been shown to influence market performance.
	www.davidmcminn.com /pages/summ2.htm (1507 words)

	Artemis Project: Lunar Seismic Actvity
		The lunar seismic activity is usually caused from tidal forces and secondary effects from impacts.
		There are secondary effects from lunar seismic activity that can create hazards to a presence on the Moon.
		Although the effect of lunar seismic activity is widespread, a lunar astronaut would hardly notice a moonquake happening, and precautions for moonquakes are probably unnecessatry.
	www.asi.org /adb/m/03/07/seismic-activity.html (363 words)

	Astrology Hot Zones for May-June 2005 - Full Moon Lunar Eclipse Effect for Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, ...
		The number of hours a lunar eclipse lasts is said to have an influence equivalent to the same number of months, i.e., this eclipse will last 4 hrs.
		Even though the direct effect will be seen over the next few months, it is also important to remember that once a set of causes and effects are set into motion by an eclipse, it usually leads to major consequences down the road, even after the specific time span of direct influence.
		To remind you, last October's lunar eclipse featured the Moon on a degree of bridge building and cooperating to overcome obstacles that are a natural part of evolution, while the Sun was a degree of avidity and tearing oneself away from the known and familiar.
	blogs.salon.com /0003573/stories/2005/04/20/astrologyHotZonesForMayjune2005FullMoonLunarEclipseEffectForAriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusAndPisces.html (1981 words)

	More Than Moonglow, Alaska Science Forum
		The experts apparently have long accepted some lunar warming effect, which was news to me, but previous measurements showed the full moon adding only about two hundredths of a centigrade degree to the polar atmosphere's temperature.
		But poleward of the 70th parallel in both northern and southern hemispheres, the effect was 25 times greater than it was closer to the equator.
		John Shaffer, a member of the Arizona research team reporting the polar heating effect, admits that it's barely possible that radiation from the moon might be putting glitches in the satellite instrumentation, but the odds are much better that the high-latitude warming is a real effect.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF13/1367.html (623 words)

	Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
		We selected lunar calendar for our study, so dates of patients' admissions were converted to lunar months and three day- periods with 15th as middle day were defined as full moon days.
		The lunar year is based on moon turning around the earth that nearly lasts for 29 ¼ days, so each month might take 30 or 29 days and number of days for each month will change.
		After adjusting of date for calendar effects, no relationship was found with the total or half synodic and anomalistic lunar cycles or between the waxing and waning synodic cycle.
	www.bioline.org.br /request?ms04034 (1721 words)

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		The Ascent Stage of the Lunar Module (LM) is the manned portion of the space vehicle.
		Lunar descent, lunar landing, lunar launch, and rendezvous and docking with the Command and Service Module (CSM) are also controlled from this compartment.
		In mid-1962, thoroughly convinced that Lunar Orbital Rendezvous (LOR) was the best method to effect a lunar landing, Grumman launched a feasibility study on LOR.
	users.specdata.com /home/pullo/F_R.HTM (464 words)

	Lunar Menstrual Phase Locking
		For example, if the lunar cycle were drawn as a clock that had 30 (rounded up from 29.5) "pie sectors", and a particular woman who did not have a 29.5 day cycle was charting her data, certain phenomena would emerge.
		Persistent activity rhythms that are coordinated with lunar rhythms have been well documented in a variety of organisms including the frog, Rana pipiens (Robertson 1978), the crab Carcinus maenas (Naylor 1958, 1960), the marine worm Platynereis (Havenschild 1960), the hamster (Brown 1967), and planarians (Brown et al.
		Robertson, D.R. 1978 The light-dark cycle and nonlinear analysis of lunar perturbations and barometric pressure associated with the annual locomotor activity of the frog Rana pipiens.
	www.athenainstitute.com /lunarmpl.html (3329 words)

	Lunar Acceleration of the Evolution of Life on Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The moon and sun act on the oceans of Earth to produce a tidal effect, this effect is caused by a gravity differential, the gravitational pull of the distant object is higher on the 'near' side of the planet than the 'far' side.
		The size of the tidal effect is dependant upon the mass and distance of the object causing the tide, as well as the diameter of the object experiencing the tidal effect.
		While the tidal effect on the deformative region would obviously drop toward zero as you approached the center of the Earth (where the distance 'differential' drops to zero), the massive extent of this region still causes a substantial tidal effect.
	www.1point1c.org /astro/moonevo.jsp (1552 words)

	The Straight Dope: Do things get crazy when the moon is full? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There have been lots of studies over the years, some of which have purported to show that there really is such a thing as a "lunar effect." For example, one study claimed that an unusual number of traffic accidents occurred during the evenings right around the full and new moons (Templer, Veleber, and Brooner, 1982).
		A new twist was recently given to lunar-effect theorizing by the discovery that positive and negative ions in the atmosphere have an effect on behavior (negative ions usually favorable, positives the opposite).
		However, the effect is slight compared to major sources of positive ions like air conditioning and air pollution.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_337.html (649 words)

	Between Sky and Mind: - StarIQ.com
		Scientific studies have shown a correspondence between lunar phases and the increase in crisis intervention calls, suicides, alcohol intake and patients admitted to psychiatric hospitals.
		If lunar cycles cause changes in the behavior of fish, birds and other animals, then again, this will affect what is available for us humans who are at the top of the food chain.
		Lunar Rhythms of the Meal and Alcohol Intake of Humans.
	www.stariq.com /Main/Articles/P0000995.HTM (947 words)

	[52.05] The Lunar Opposition Effect from Clementine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The mechanism responsible for the lunar opposition effect is an area of current debate.
		Recent studies of the lunar opposition effect have yielded contradictory results.
		(1993), studying polarized light from lunar samples, concluded the surge is predominantly due to coherent backscatter.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v30n3/dps98/227.htm (183 words)

	Coherent Backscatter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Derivation of a composite coherent backscatter and shadow hiding surface reflectance model of the lunar surface.
		Hapke, B., Nelson, R., Smythe, W., The opposition effect of the moon: coherent backscatter and shadow hiding.
		Laboratory measurements of lunar soils verifying the composite model derived in ref. [8].
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/alsj/coherentbcksctr.html (212 words)

	Research
		The effects of specific moon constellations especially perigee and apogee were also noted.
		The results demonstrated a clear effect of the preparations: The wheat plants revealed a significant increase in dry matter content (under conditions of a low nutrient growing medium, average temperatures and poor light) as a result of the radiant effects of the preparations.
		Results showed a morphological correspondence between the effect of the particular preparation and the direct mineral effect of the related substance.
	www.biodynamic.org.uk /Research.htm (1497 words)

	Bad Moon Rising: the persistent belief in lunar connections to madness -- Iosif and Ballon 173 (12): 1498 -- Canadian ...
		are often ascribed to the moon's gravitational effects.
		Rotton J, Kelly I. A scale for assessing belief in lunar effects: reliability and concurrent validity.
		Lieber A, Sherin C. Homicides and the lunar cycle: toward a theory of lunar influence on human emotional disturbance.
	www.cmaj.ca /cgi/content/full/173/12/1498 (1676 words)

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