Astronomy myths

     This week, I'm going to talk about myths. A lot of times, people would get confused or mixed up between myths and facts. So here are some myths that are flowing around in the astronomy world: more crimes occur at full moon, mars will look as big as the full moon, you can see the Great Wall of China from the moon...
     Lets talk about the first myth "More crimes occur at full moon". This myth has been flowing around for awhile and many still believes it. The reason behind this myth is that many police man and nurses have noticed that crimes increased during the full moon. But there is no proof or scientific data to back it up. Many scientists think that people tend to notice because the full moon state is  more easily to remember than many other states of the moon.
     "You can see the Great Wall of China from the moon", this is the myth I used to believed. The Great Wall of China is in such a great location that I would think that we can see it from the moon. The wall was built in a high landmark and because it is so big and so long that one would think they can see it from anywhere. The Great Wall is 8850 km long and 9.1 meters in width, which is not very wide and certainly a human would not be able to see it from the moon. The distance between the earth and the moon is 383,000 km, according to many scientists the object from earth has to be 113 km in length and width for human eyes to see it from the moon.
     There are many myths that is still flowing around, some are sounded as good as a fact but  don't let it fool  you.