The Moon in 2016

Librations, rotations, nutations, oh my!


La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners,
She smooths the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face...

T.S. Eliot, Rhapsody On a Windy Night