Wednesday, January 25, 2012

FUN FACTS
  • The highest tides in the world are at the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Because the earth rotates on its axis the moon completes one orbit in our sky every 25 hours (Not to be confused with
moon's 27 day orbit around the earth), we get two tidal peaks as well as
two tidal troughs. These events are separated by about 12 hours. 
  • The sun's gravitational force on the earth is only 46 percent that of the moon. Making the moon the
single most important factor for the creation of tides.
  • The gravitational force of the moon is one ten-millionth that of earth, but when you combine other forces such as the earth’s centrifugal force created by its spin, you get tides.
  • Since the moon moves around the Earth, it is not always in the same place at the same time each day.
So, each day, the times for high and low tides change by 50 minutes
  • Offshore, in the deep ocean, the difference in tides is usually less than 1.6 feet 

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