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Synodic month extreme durations

Hi!

Back in 2014 (!), you did a major update of the page Lunar month, in which, among other things, you mention that “the actual time between lunations may range from about 29.18 to about 29.93 days.” However, you provided no source for this information.

Countless websites have copied this information from Wikipedia without questioning it.

However, the actual extreme durations for the synodic month, according to Jean Meeus, are “between about 29.27 and 29.83 days” (More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, Willmann-Bell, 2002, p. 23).

I have updated Lunar month accordingly, but I am curious as to where you got the information from, that it’s 29.18 to 29.93 days…

Regards,

CielProfond (talk) 17:49, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for not providing a source back then; I have no idea 10 years later (!) where I read it, but I assume it was NASA or a similar source, since I wouldn't add something like that without knowing fairly certain that it was correct. I realize this is not a defense for not adding the source, and I don't mean it like that, I'm just saying knowing myself, even if it was 10 years back, I can't imagine I added such a thing based on a bogus source, or pulling it out my own hat. I'm trying to reverse engineer it now, which again 10 years later is pretty impossible, I guess that's my own fault. For what it's worth this is what NASA says about it: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/moonorbit.html They do provide a list or recent lunation lenghts, but not a clear estimation for the theoretical minimum and maximum. I can't imagine by the way that NASA wouldn't have knowledge on this; but it's not on this page, and I can't find it anywhere else either right now. For now, I guess your correction and provided source is fine; if and when someone finds an even better or more recent estimation and source, it can always be updated. Greetings, RagingR2 (talk) 19:02, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. If I should find anything later on this subject, I will come back to this conversation. Greetings, RagingR2 (talk) 19:06, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]