Earth-Moon Relationships: Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy at the Accademia Galileiana di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, November 8–10, 2000

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Welcome Address....Pages 1-3
Goodly Frame, Spotty Globe: Earth and Moon in Renaissance Literature....Pages 5-23
Sediments of the Moon and Earth as End-Members for Comparative Planetology....Pages 25-43
The Moon in the 14th Century Frescoes in Padova....Pages 45-50
The Importance of the Moon in Teaching Astronomy at the Primary School....Pages 51-60
The Moon and the Origin of Life....Pages 61-66
Sexual Satellites, Moonlight and the Nuptial Dances of Worms: The Influence of the Moon on the Reproduction of Marine Animals....Pages 67-84
 Claire De Lune on the Italian Space Science Programme....Pages 85-85
Fantastic New Chondrites, Achondrites, and Lunar Meteorites as the Result of Recent Meteorite Search Expeditions in Hot and Cold Deserts....Pages 87-97
Lunar Influences on Climate....Pages 99-113
Apollo Samples and the Geochemical Determination of Basaltic Achondrite Parent Bodies....Pages 115-125
Water: Communicator in Moon-Earth Relationships....Pages 127-127
“Lunacy” in Mentally Disturbed Children....Pages 129-131
Highlights from ICEUM4, The 4th International Conference on the Exploration and Utilisation of the Moon....Pages 133-142
The D-CIXS X-Ray Spectrometer on ESA’s SMART-1 Mission to the Moon....Pages 143-152
Lunar and Planetary Perspectives on the Geological History of the Earth....Pages 153-177
Moonstruck: How Realistic is the Moon Depicted in Classic Science Fiction Films?....Pages 179-200
The Moon and Extra-Solar Planets....Pages 201-207
Craters on the Moon from Galileo to Wegener: A Short History of the Impact Hypothesis, and Implications for the Study of Terrestrial Impact Craters....Pages 209-224
Reckoning Time, Longitude and the History of the Earth’s Rotation, Using the Moon....Pages 225-236
Ancient Moons....Pages 237-243
The Formation of Chemical Elements and their Abundances in the Solar System....Pages 245-252
A New View of the Moon in Light of Data from Clementine and Prospector Missions....Pages 253-269
The Atmosphere of the Moon....Pages 271-277
The Moon and Life on Earth....Pages 279-290
Marine Animal Behaviour in Relation to Lunar Phase....Pages 291-302
Moon-Struck: Artists Rediscover Nature and Observe....Pages 303-341
Nitrogen on the Moon: What Does it Tell Us?....Pages 343-350
Search for Antimatter in Cosmic Rays Using the Moon....Pages 351-362
Mysteries of the Farside of the Moon: What Galileo Couldn’t See....Pages 363-363
Lunar Maps of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Tobias Mayer’s Map and its 19th-Century Edition....Pages 365-377
SMART-1: The First Time of Europe to the Moon....Pages 379-390
Palaeolithic Timekeepers Looking at the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic; The Lunar Cycle and the Pleiades in the Cave of La-Tête-du-lion (Ardèche, France) — 21,000 BP....Pages 391-404
Lunar Influence on Plants....Pages 405-409
A Perspective on the Earth from the Moon....Pages 411-418
“Earth-Moon Relationships”: Highlights of the Conference and Concluding Remarks....Pages 419-426
The Dispute between Carlini-Plana and Laplace on the Theory of the Moon....Pages 427-441
On the Orbit of the Moon....Pages 443-443
Geochemical Evidence for a Close Genetic Relationship of Earth and Moon....Pages 445-452
Macro and Microcosmus: Moon Influence on the Human Body....Pages 453-461
Lunar Rhythms in Forestry Traditions — Lunar-Correlated Phenomena in Tree Biology and Wood Properties....Pages 463-478
Meteor Showers on the Lunar Atmosphere....Pages 479-486
Lunam 2000 (Lunar Atmosphere Mission)....Pages 487-495
Earthshine at the Rainbow Angle....Pages 497-498
Seneca and the Moon: The Cultural Importance of our Satellite....Pages 499-503
The Moon, the Stars and the Milk....Pages 505-513
Science Fiction in Naples in the Middle of the 19th Century....Pages 515-515
Moonlight Without the Moon....Pages 517-522
The Science Goals of ESA’s SMART-1 Mission to The Moon....Pages 523-531
Lunar Explorers Society: Goals and Activities....Pages 533-538
Lunation and Primate Menses....Pages 539-543
Mapping the Moon with SIR, An Infrared Spectrometer for SMART-1....Pages 545-545
Radioastronomy and Radiointerferometry on the “Hidden” Lunar Surface....Pages 547-555
The Moon in the Classic Maya World....Pages 557-560
The Response of the 11 August 1999 Total Solar Eclipse in the Geomagnetic Field....Pages 561-566
Variations in the Mortality with Respect to Lunar Phases....Pages 567-572
Back Matter....Pages 573-575