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This document is a physics problem set from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Physics Department dated February 8, 2006. It contains 1 problem asking students to use a composite photograph of a lunar eclipse to calculate the radius of the moon and its distance from Earth in units of Earth's radius using Aristarchus' method. The problem instructs students to draw the umbral shadow on the photograph and note that the shadow's center does not lie on the line connecting the moon and explain why.