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New Moon
15 October 2004Science is clashing with tradition in debates about when the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan should officially begin this year. According to tradition, Ramadan should begin on the first sighting of the new moon, and Sharia judges in Bahrain sat up Wednesday to watch for it. Astronomers, however, argued that the plotting of the moon's course shows that the new moon could not rise until Thursday night, and that any moon seen prior to that is the last glimpse of the old moon, from the previous lunar month.
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