"I hate to be that astronomer, but the planets don't care about your broom," he told USA TODAY.The trick has less to do with the Earth’s gravitational pull on a certain day and more to do with the object’s center of gravity. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about two hours outside the LM setting up experiments and collecting samples. A viral myth from 2012 is recirculating on the web right now, claiming NASA said Monday was the only day you can make brooms stand up all by themselves, because of the earth's gravitational pull. LROC scientists created the digital elevation model using a stereo pair of images. He would like to think of himself as an Internet Influencer.

Meteorologist Ahmad Bajjay Hence, the broom standing up by itself is actually true but not for the reasons #BroomChallenge is mostly famous for. The Broom Challenge Explained: It’s a Hoax You just have to know the trick.Bradley Schaefer, an LSU physics and astronomy professor,Schaefer added, “It’s a sociological question: How do these myths get started, and why are they propagating? Snopes extensively One of the key pieces of evidence debunking the conspiracy theory that the moon landing was a hoax: Footprints remain visible on the moon’s surface. "When you're done balancing your broom, you can go outside and see five planets in the sky at night," he said.© 2020 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. Without the gravitational pull, that broom would float away at the slightest disturbance. Users online got especially creative once they were able to get their broom standing upright. The story went viral as recently as 2018, For one thing, the spring equinox, which occurs every year in late March, has nothing to do with brooms standing on end. Stargazers can point out Mercury and Venus right after sunset and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn right before sunrise. He reads and works alot for this so you don't have to.Sign up here to get the latest news, updates and special offers delivered directly to your inbox. Ejecta from West comprises the boulders that Armstrong had to avoid as he searched for a safe landing site. If we pride ourselves on being in an information age, but most of the information is wrong, that bodes badly for society. Sadly, there's a reasonable explanation for the "standing broom" trick and it has everything to do with balance . A viral tweet claims NASA says the Earth's gravitational pull causes brooms to stand up straight for one day only, but experts say this trick works any day of the year. According to the Internet NASA says today is the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull. Dankanator will keep you updated on more interesting subjects.M.

"NASA broom challenge" or the "gravitational pull day" took over the internet in no time after a viral tweet. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. “You have to try it other times, too, right? Neither do other planetary alignments. The original mention of NASA’s announcement of The Broom Challenge Theory has yet to be located.This isn’t the first time claims have spread online that NASA said brooms can stand up on their own on the spring or vernal equinox. Each image in the pair shows the site from a slightly different angle, allowing sophisticated software to infer the shape of the terrain, similar to the way that left and right eye views are combined in the brain to produce the perception of depth. "This is another social media hoax that exemplifies how quickly pseudoscience and false claims can go viral," she said. At one point, Armstrong ventured east of the LM to examine a small crater, dubbed Little West, that he'd flown over just before landing. Don’t believe everything you see on the internet.Most of the pictures and videos of a broom standing up are either CGI or a flat-bottom broomstick with a low center of gravity.

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