37° NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [14:9— Dec, 19 18 



Is the climate of the moon like ours ? How does it differ ? Why 

 is this difference? Could people live in such a climate? 



What difference would the lack of an atmosphere make in our 

 own ability to hear noise? Why? Does it make any difference 

 on the moon ? If you were there could you hear your mother call 

 you to supper if you were playing in the next yard? Could you 

 hear the roar of a cannon if there was one discharged on the moon ? 

 Why? 



Why do we have clouds in our sky? What makes rain and 

 snow ? Why is our sky blue ? Why is the moon sky black ? 



How do freezing and thawing affect our rocks? Is it the same 

 on the moon? Could you go skating or slide down hill or make 

 snowballs there? How would lack of clouds and air affect the 

 heat and cold? 



Ode to Phoebe 



From The Metropolitan Magazine 



Phoebe is the moon of Saturn which revolves in the opposite direction from 

 all the other moons of Saturn and of all the other planets. 



C. S. Day, Jr. 



Phoebe, Phoebe, whirling high 

 In our neatly plotted sky; 

 Listen, Phoebe, to my lay, 

 Won't you whirl the other way? 



All the other stars are good, 

 And revolve the way they should ; 

 Only you of that bright throng 

 Will persist in going wrong. 



Don't reply what God has said, 

 We have made a law instead ; 

 Have you never heard of this 

 Nebular hypothesis? 



It prescribes in terms exact, 

 Just how every star should act; 

 Tells each little satellite 

 Where to go and whirl at night. 



Disobedience incurs 



Anger of astronomers, 



Who, you must not think it odd, 



Are more finicky than God. 



So, my dear, you'd better change, 

 Really, we can't rearrange 

 All our charts from Mars to Hebe, 

 Just to fit a chit, like Phoebe. 



