User:Dgoody7/Great Moon Hoax

Lead
Mention that Richard Adams Locke was attributed as author. Mention that it is said to have been intended to be satire but was believed to be an actual hoax by many.

Hoax
Add more information about the hoax itself such as some of the things that Herchel said was on the moon. Add more evidence as to how he found of all this information using the telescope

Reactions
Draw reference to quotes from Asa Green (NY Transcript Editor) and Phillip Hone (former NYC mayor). Add citation to letter in part where Herschel's lack of amusement is discussed.

Legacy
== The Great Moon hoax had also inspired Edgar Alan Poe to write a hoax about a half week long voyage across the Atlantic in a hot air balloon and some theories say may have inspired another famous hoax a century later in H.- G. Wells War of the Worlds. ==