That is why in a total lunar eclipse the Moon appears a dark reddish-brown. |
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The earth's roundness can be seen as a shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse. |
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Indeed a partial lunar eclipse could be seen from New England, early in the morning on May 18, although only at moonset. |
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Apparently there is often a crash in prices within a few days of a lunar eclipse and within six weeks of a solar eclipse. |
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The full Moon will pass through the Earth's shadow, producing a total lunar eclipse. |
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Less than six months after the lunar eclipse in May, the Moon will again undergo total eclipse, this time on the 8th. |
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He made further observations of comets, and recorded the lunar eclipse of 3 September 1457 from a site near Vienna. |
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The three involved in solar and lunar eclipses are the Earth, Moon, and Sun, but other combinations are possible. |
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A lunar eclipse only happens when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in alignment, with the Earth casting a shadow onto the moon. |
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When the full moon rises over the UK tonight, the total lunar eclipse will already be underway. |
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But there was not much shielding in the lunar module, probably not much better than a space suit. |
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Apollo traveled to the Moon with the lunar module attached to the command module. |
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Neil Armstrong went tumbling down the ladder and fell to the lunar surface in a cloud of grey dust. |
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The real payoff in present terms is the spinoff technology that will be used for future lunar and interplanetary missions. |
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The theatre itself is shaped like the lunar module used to land on the moon and is placed within the fine architecture of the Royal Exchange. |
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They were going to test the command and service module and the lunar module together in space for the first time. |
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Conrad and Bean spent a total of 7.5 hours on the lunar surface during their two trips outside the shelter of the lunar module. |
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Imagine it is 20, 50, or 100 years after lunar mining becomes established and after a genuine cislunar economy becomes established. |
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We watched as the workers carefully restored pieces of old airplanes, fighter jets and lunar modules. |
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This will be the first time lunar swingbys have been used to manipulate orbits of more than one spacecraft. |
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Read Eco's novel, which is full of Paris meridians, lunar parallaxes, the moons of Jupiter, and the Powder of Sympathy. |
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Simply put, you are more likely to see a lunar eclipse during a long winter night than a short summer night. |
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I've always wondered, but assumed it was because one week is a quarter of a lunar month. |
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In marking off days and lunations on lengths of dowel, the eleven day disparity between the solar year and the lunar year is found directly. |
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The Hittites, who had a lunar calendar, believed the world would end about 100 B.C., when it reached an even number. |
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The program would start with lunar orbiters, which would be followed by landers and rovers, and eventually sample return missions. |
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If prophecy held, the children born under the seventh moon of the lunar year would be the generation to right old wrongs. |
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Like the Western calendar, The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of the moon. |
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They were extensively photographed by lunar orbiters and Apollo astronauts. |
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Not only decorative, it was hung in the palace during the first month of the lunar year to help usher in spring. |
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The lunar year is approximately 354 days long, so the months rotate backward through the seasons and are not fixed to the Gregorian calendar. |
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This is why in the second month of every lunar year, thousands of people pray and offer sacrifices to her in search of love and fertility. |
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The Vietnamese celebrate the new lunar year with a week off of work and school. |
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The power supply would be harvested by solar panels, housed on a lunar orbiting power station. |
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In 1979 Jimmy Carter used the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the lunar landing to push his energy program. |
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In different Indian lunisolar calendars the lunar month is used, mixed with the sidereal month. |
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On Bali a lunar calendar New Year's day is celebrated with fasting, prayer, silence, and inactivity. |
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In addition, they have several festivals that are peculiar to the lunar calendar and have a seasonal significance. |
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On the first and 12 th day of every month in the lunar calendar, many people come here to burn incense. |
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The new moon of the ninth month of the lunar calendar shines down on an Afghanistan that is struggling with the uncertainties of a fragile peace. |
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We calculated the total number of patients in each calendar month and then distributed this number according to the days of the lunar months. |
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Markings on bone plaques clearly represent systems of notation, perhaps even lunar calendars. |
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The symbol of the sun and moon lay embossed on the frontal bind, the lunar sphere overtaking the sun in wars of dark and light. |
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Officially the start of the Chinese lunar new year, it is a grand religious, patriotic, vernal, and family holiday rolled into one. |
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They'll be more cosmically significant than the lunar eclipse that hung hauntingly over Busch Stadium on Wednesday night. |
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Apollo 17 was the last lunar flight, but spacewalking astronauts continued to perform important tasks in space. |
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Genetically engineer algae or other plant species to grow well under lunar conditions under filtered glass. |
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The United States is also planning on launching a lunar spacecraft a few years later. |
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In fact the major perturbation, producing about 99.99 percent of the variation in the lunar orbit, is due to the large attraction of the Sun. |
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Dangers in the lunar environment include radiation, extreme temperatures, and the vacuum of space. |
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The article quoted Ouyang Ziyuan, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is in charge of China's lunar exploration program. |
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The external stimulus provides the impetus to move forth from the inspirational quarter of the lunar cycle into the action quarter. |
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About a quarter of the lunar diameter was eclipsed, and re-emergence occurred about a quarter of an hour before sunrise. |
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Soon her palm resembled a chart of lunar phases, four thin moons, their tiny scarlet crescents crossing the lines of galaxies and Fate. |
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We have a major research program to investigate the thermal histories of lunar rocks, achondritic meteorites, and Martian meteorites. |
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To preserve the pristine lunar dust and fragments, some samples were placed into gas-tight cans sealed with a knife-edge-to-metal seal. |
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Over the eons the lunar spin rate has been damped by Earth's gravity, because the Moon's mass distribution is not uniform. |
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Note that these angular sizes were calculated using the average eccentricity of the lunar orbit. |
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They also felt that operating under earthshine or lunar noon were feasible, as long as thermal conditions were understood. |
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There are usually two or three full lunar eclipses a year, making them rarer than solar eclipses. |
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The event is customarily held on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, celebrating the end of the harvest season. |
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The most reliable rockets thus far designed have been the Apollo Saturn lunar boosters and the space shuttles. |
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Because the Chinese calendar is lunar based, the Chinese new year begins on the 2nd new moon of winter, usually sometime in February. |
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Samples of moon rock and lunar dust landed at a local primary school last week. |
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It is celebrated on the first full moon of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which this year falls on Thursday. |
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Thus the Callippic cycle fitted 940 lunar months precisely to 76 tropical years of 365.25 days. |
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For an astrophile, a lunar eclipse is always fascinating and mysterious at the same time. |
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Each one was part of a lunar landing mission during which two American astronauts landed a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. |
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The command ship accommodated three astronauts and the lunar lander only two. |
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The Surveyor lunar landers followed in the late 1960s, which dramatically helped in the site selection for the Apollo landings. |
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One must not only accept the possibility of a lunar paleontology and parabiology, but take precautions not to contaminate the existing forms. |
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Ancient rituals have been revived, sacrificial altars rebuilt and lunar patterns observed with increasing attention. |
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On the eve of the lunar New Year, all members of the family sit cross-legged in the center of the ger or yurt and begin their dinner at midnight. |
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He was greeted by dune buggies, which then took him across a lunar landscape for five hours to a collection of yurts, or Mongolian tents. |
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There is additional evidence that points against China planning near-term manned lunar missions. |
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Another way to protect a lunar base from radiation is to put it underground in a lava tube. |
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Over a few years the months would begin to misalign with their associated seasons on a lunar calendar. |
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The horse is one of the 12 zodiacal animals of the duodenary cycle of the lunar year. |
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If leap days were not added, the beginnings of months would soon not coincide with the first sighting of the lunar crescent. |
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The angular momentum lost by the Earth's axial rotation appears in the lunar orbit, the total angular momentum being conserved. |
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Liquid helium from a tank in the lunar module was used to assure a steady flow of propellants to the descent engine. |
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A permanent lunar base might then provide a springboard for a trip to Mars. |
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The combined effect of the lunar and solar tidal torques is to increase the length of the day by 24 microseconds each year. |
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To get totality, the Moon must be near enough and the Sun far enough such that the lunar disk can completely block the Sun. |
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However, before permanent settlements are established, people will probably occupy a series of lunar outposts. |
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Other Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts have helped in understanding the lunar meteorites found on Earth. |
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Now we're awaiting tomorrow's total lunar eclipse when the Earth's shadow falls on the moon. |
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Ambitious space experts and political leaders planned lunar colonies, space stations and Mars expeditions. |
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Still, it is scientifically preferable to collect samples of the melt that formed during the creation of a specific lunar impact basin. |
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Misconceptions about such things as the moon's effect on tides have contributed to lunar mythology. |
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The Moon's distance from Earth varies by about 2700 miles over the course of a lunar cycle. |
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Every year Thais of Chinese descent celebrate the traditional lunar New Year in grand style and this year was no exception. |
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The mission would fail if any of the four engine burns needed to reach the Moon and get into lunar orbit underperformed. |
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What typical magnifications did 19 th-century observational astronomers use for lunar and planetary viewing? |
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Of course, it takes vast amounts of money and effort to pull off a successful lunar mission. |
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The town looked like a lunar landscape, with everything covered in rime ice. |
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This paper investigates the least maneuver velocity through the tolerable apolune and other lunar orbit elements. |
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A lunar eclipse occurs at full moon when the Moon crosses the ecliptic in opposition to the Sun. |
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However, some remained optimistic that an international framework for cooperation on lunar exploration could be developed. |
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Not by accident, he used Harrison's chronometer and lunar distances to calculate longitudes accurately. |
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As a result, molded cable assemblies are photographed as a lunar probe vehicle, as fireworks, and as plants growing beside a stream. |
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Interest in astro-archeology has caused many lithic sites to be re-evaluated as possible lunar and solar alignments. |
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Forget any thoughts of serene and distant romance within the gentle folds of slow lunar hills. |
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The students use their telescopes for planetary and lunar viewing as well as some basic astrophotography. |
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We then compared the total numbers of patients on each day of each lunar month. |
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Why do we not get a total eclipse once every 28 days i.e. once every lunar orbit? |
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The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. |
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The circadian rhythm resides with an infradian rhythm of lunar 28-day cycles, seasonal cycles of cold and hot as well as shifting light and dark. |
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The early Apollo missions focused on learning how to work in the lunar environment. |
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Soon your smooth pool bottom will be a lunar landscape of ridges and foot prints. |
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It is certainly wild, even deserted in most places, but the stark lunar landscape is only part of a rich and varied wilderness. |
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The Moon has no atmosphere, so a lunar base must be airtight and provide breathable air. |
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It is caused by the earth moving between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow over the lunar surface. |
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Mountains of rubbish are piled up to form a landscape that is almost lunar in its desolation. |
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The two ships would dock in orbit, and propellants would transfer into the lunar craft. |
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The first distinction, as we have already seen in Chapter 1, is between lunar and solar eclipses. |
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Samples of moon rock and lunar dust landed at a Silsden primary school last week. |
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During the voyage he experimented with the lunar position method of determining longitude. |
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As the lunar disk cleared the horizon, it appeared that a chunk had been taken out of its bottom. |
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He did propose the setting up of an observatory to provide accurate lunar data in his attempts to convince the commissioners. |
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The Chinese New Year is based on the lunar calendar and so varies from year to year. |
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Water on the lunar surface would be very helpful in the creation of permanent bases on the Moon. |
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Apollo was not followed by a lunar base, even though much remains to be explored on the Moon. |
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There was only so much our scientists could do with lunar rocks or soil samples. |
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Births occur almost a month after incubation, in tune with the next lunar cycle. |
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At the time with which we are concerned lunar caustic was used as an astringent, in medicine and for cosmetic purposes, and for marking linen. |
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For a long time in the treatment of places to be cauterized, only the dreaded nitrate of lunar caustic was used to produce the caustic effect. |
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He proposed the method of lunar distances to determine longitude which was an important proposal. |
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For some years he had maintained a strong interest in, and advocacy of, the method of lunar distances for determining longitude. |
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During his editorship, Lalande added accurate tables of lunar distances from stars which were valuable in navigation. |
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But if the same side of the Moon always faces Earth, there should be no lunar tides. |
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South Africans will see a partial lunar eclipse but will miss a solar eclipse. |
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For those who are newer to the whole eclipse business, a lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes into the earth's shadow. |
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As shown in Figure 15-6, there are no total lunar eclipses in either of these years, just a single partial eclipse in each. |
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Tonight there was a total lunar eclipse, and the moon was rather dark, with deep red at the margins as it rose from the eastern horizon. |
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And unlike the partial phases of solar eclipses, lunar eclipses of course are completely safe to watch without using any filters. |
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Due to the lunar nature of the Arabic calendar, known as the Hijra calendar, festivals do not fall on the same days each year in the Western world. |
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In fact, some peoples still prefer lunar years to solar years. |
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An intercalary month was added every three years to allow for the fact that a solar year has 365.2422 days while 12 lunar months of 29.5306 days contains 354.3672 days. |
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Unlike for Mars, lunar launch windows are effectively continuous. |
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It is celebrated at the beginning of the lunar year, usually in April. |
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If the Moon completely enters the umbra, a total lunar eclipse occurs. |
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A lunar eclipse is visible from everywhere on the dark side of the Earth. |
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He studied continuum mechanics, lunar theory with Clairaut, the three body problem, elasticity, acoustics, the wave theory of light, hydraulics, and music. |
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The number of lunar cycles does not correspond easily to the number of seasonal ones. |
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Reasons for my Gingrich blues No lunar dreams or Grecian cruise No credit line from Tiffany's No saintly wife, his former squeeze. |
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Percussion, brass, bass, guitar and wind instruments are the stimulants of choice, so soak up the lunar splendour with Stipsky at this free gig from 7.30 pm. |
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The lunar calendar and almanacs are also used to determine auspicious and inauspicious days for doing various endeavors, from starting a business, to getting married. |
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Since the lunar year is shorter than the tropical year, the lunar calendar travels all through the seasons, making a complete cycle in about 33 years. |
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The intercalary month by which the Arabs adjusted the lunar months to the solar year is abolished, severing the connection between the religious rituals and the seasons. |
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Moreover, while China has discussed developing a rudimentary space station, there is no evidence of the development of spacecraft, like landers, needed for lunar missions. |
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Also called the Lantern Festival, this event is an important traditional occasion, falling on the 15th day of the first month on the lunar calendar. |
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The later film picks up where the first left off, attempting to show that the Anasazi used solar and lunar cycles to locate pueblos in and around the Canyon. |
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Through the telescope that morning, I could see the surface of the Moon receding, curving back, angling away from the Sun and around the lunar horizon and out of sight. |
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An anomalistic lunar month is the lunar equivalent to the solar anomalistic year which indicates the passage of the sun around the earth from perigee to perigee. |
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Having an apolune closer to the Moon would increase the efficiency for lunar mapping at higher resolutions than carried out by the Clementine and Lunar Prospector probes. |
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A break-down of the secular rates of motion of the lunar orbit's apse and line of nodes, taken from Brown's lunar theory, is instructive in this respect. |
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Iceland was where the Apollo 11 astronauts trained for their lunar trip. |
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So even during total lunar eclipse, the lunar disk is not completely dark. |
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He is honoured by having a large lunar crater named after him. |
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If the Moon orbited Earth in exactly the same plane that Earth orbits the Sun, we'd get a solar eclipse every New Moon and a lunar eclipse every Full Moon. |
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The crew scouted landing sites from lunar orbit and rendezvoused the lunar module and command module in a full dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 landing two months later. |
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The tanks were used to fuel the descent and ascent stage rocket engines of the lunar module that landed astronauts on the moon and returned them to orbit. |
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The three astronauts travelled in the command module, which was docked during flight to both the lunar module and the service module, the latter carrying fuel and supplies. |
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After their moon walk, the astronauts went back to their lunar module. |
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The Babylonians had found a cycle of 223 lunar months within which eclipses of sun and moon recur at equal intervals and Thales had discovered this formula. |
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A normal full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks or 10 lunar months. |
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The first and fifteenth of every month in the twelve month lunar year are also important occasions for rites to ancestors, spirits, and Buddhist deities. |
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Wind-dried sausages, smoky bacon and salted meats are traditionally made in southwestern China in the last month of the lunar year, and served up on the New Year dinner table. |
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Some people also believed that Plutus' birthday was July 22 of the lunar year and they sacrificed to him on that day in the hope of becoming rich. |
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He explained that on the 26th day of the final month of the lunar year, the gods go to heaven to report to the King of the gods on people's behavior on earth. |
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The cited lunisolar interface is significant because an interpretation based upon the lunar phases so clearly points to the possibility of a special creation. |
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Dotted with green islets and set in a spectacular lunar landscape, Lake Myvatn is notable for its luxuriant vegetation and for providing a home for 45 nesting bird species. |
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Cordless drills are based on tools originally used to sample lunar soil. |
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Not only was this the first manned flight to and from the Moon, Apollo 8 served to validate many of the technical procedures necessary to support upcoming lunar missions. |
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The largest of the lunar mare, Mare Imbrium sits in the Imbrium basin. |
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All the Moon's multi-ringed impact basins are older than the Moon's second kind of crust, consisting of basalts that have flooded low-lying areas to form the lunar maria. |
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One possible source of such untainted data are Earth's lunar meteorites. |
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Chan was not among the Chinese authors whose opinion on the lunar landing Xinhua reporters sought. |
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Ramadan is based on the lunar calendar, so it moves back about 10 days each year. |
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This week's lunar eclipse brings Pisces forgiveness, Taurus a sense of the Zeitgeist, and Gemini a boatload of misinformation. |
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Armstrong describes how he diagnosed the problem and landed the lunar module craft. |
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A shock of black hair, like healthy lunar wheat, frames her features. |
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When the Moon is fully immersed in the umbra a total lunar eclipse occurs. |
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While it is entirely within the umbra the lunar disk brightness drops to about one part in 5,000 that of the near-full moon, and so it can still be seen. |
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The legacy that we are going to leave our children and our children's children will be a lunar landscape with off-road vehicles bouncing over the hilltops? |
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The tall building could be leapt in a single bound in lunar gravity. |
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When human mariners and lunar astronauts navigated by dead reckoning they used charts, tables, various measuring instruments, and a considerable amount of mathematics. |
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Once in orbit around the Moon, AMIE will survey the lunar terrain using visible and near-infrared light, providing clues about its chemical composition and geological history. |
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When it comes to blind and unthinking prejudice masquerading as nationalism you can always rely on the lunar right to see eye to eye with the loopy left. |
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All the lunar ecliptic limits are substantially lower than the solar values, and that is why solar eclipses outnumber lunar eclipses by about three to two. |
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In the same way as solar eclipses allow the Sun's corona to be studied, so lunar occultations enable astronomers to investigate the distant light sources being occulted. |
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If the lunar orbit were fixed in space, such that the nodes occurred always in the same locations, then the Sun would pass through those nodes once per solar year. |
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According to legend, those who pray to this Katpawi Buddha, on the first and fifteenth full days of each month on the lunar calendar, will achieve their desires. |
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The lunar calendar and new year festivities date from ancient times. |
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Chinese couples had stampeded to get hitched before the Year of the Horse started last week, spooked by a cosmological sign that the coming lunar year bodes ill for newlyweds. |
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How bad will lunar dust foul hatches, equipment, and human lungs? |
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An eclipse occurs only if the Moon crosses the ecliptic when very close to either conjunction or opposition, respectively producing solar and lunar eclipses. |
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On a wall was a 50-inch-square inked canvas called Moon that showed the pocked lunar face, which recalls in two dimensions the protruding hemispheres of the sculptures. |
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By then the Allied armies had advanced about ten miles and the Somme battlefield had been churned, like that of Verdun, into a featureless lunar landscape. |
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In order to compute the lunar parallax it was necessary to allow for the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere but is flattened at the poles. |
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Astronomy was necessary to view the lunar crescent for religious purposes. |
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Jack Horkheimer, stargazer extraordinaire, will pay us a call to preview tonight's big show in the sky and share some loony facts about lunar events. |
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Schmitt provided Apollo flight crews with detailed instructions in lunar navigation, geology, and feature recognition while training for his Moon mission. |
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There are many places to go beyond the beach, most obviously the lunar landscape of the dormant volcano Teide, but also the mysterious Pyramids of Guimar. |
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Stronger atmospheric scattering of blue light means that the light that reaches the lunar surface is predominantly red in colour so observers on Earth see a Moon that may be brick coloured, or blood red. |
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If subsurface conditions exist similar to those described in the preceding paragraph, then the possibility of an extant lunar parabiology must not be dismissed in a cavalier manner. |
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The central peaks of Rhean craters appear to be larger with respect to crater size than for lunar and Mercurian craters. |
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A recent study suggests a complex system of ancient lunar rift valleys including Vallis Rheita and Vallis Alpes. |
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Unsurprisingly, no lunar astronaut has ever claimed to have seen the Great Wall from the Moon. |
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Approximately one month later, the second observatory will be redirected after another lunar swingby to its position ahead of Earth. |
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His Micrographia contains illustrations of the Pleiades star cluster as well as of lunar craters. |
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Unlike the Earth, the lunar surface is susceptible to meteoroid attack as the moon's surface lacks the protective atmospheric layer. |
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In humans, the menstrual cycle lasts roughly a lunar month, an even multiple of the tidal period. |
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A rare alignment on the local lunar calendar led to Taizhou city centre being swamped in flower-covered cars bearing brides, grooms and families. |
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There are calendarial tables for three lunar cycles, beginning 146 3, 1482 and 1501, on fol. |
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Alternatively, sampling programs could be designed around a consistent lunar phase to minimise the effect of the moon on catch rates. |
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One theory is that tektites are solidified droplets of lunar material melted and splashed into space when large meteorites crashed into the moon. |
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Responses to magnetic fields by homing pigeons, fruit flies and flatworms also are apparently affected by lunar phase. |
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The lunar day is longer than the Earth day because the Moon orbits in the same direction the Earth spins. |
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It is the fourth of four total lunar eclipses in a two-year period, which is known as a lunar tetrad. |
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When compared with the Gregorian calendar, which is a solar calendar, the lunar month of Muharram shifts from year to year. |
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Called by numerous names like Mooncake Festival, the Mid Autumn Festival is held on the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. |
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Without this tilt, there would be an eclipse every two weeks, alternating between lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. |
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The auspicious occasion will be celebrated on the ninth day of Chaitra month in the Hindu lunar calendar. |
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It is possible to have five lunar phases in a month whenever a lunar phase occurs on the first or second day. |
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A FULL moon is the lunar phase that occurs when the Moon is completely illuminated as seen from the Earth. |
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The Lunar Module landed on very hard terrain and the gravitational pull on the Moon is so weak the lunar module would not leave a blast crater. |
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It was used during the Apollo program to process and test the command, service and lunar modules. |
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This had been caused by decades of sloppy calendar keeping and by the fact that lunar calendars do not follow the seasons. |
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Easter is the third Sunday in the paschal lunar month, or, in other words, the Sunday after the paschal lunar month's 14th day. |
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Using lunar calendars, the researchers determined the moon phase in which each of these visits occurred. |
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This means that every year, the solar and lunar calendars differ by about 11 days. |
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However, Rahman said that Bangladeshis celebrate festivities that fall in the lunar calendar as well. |
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This is in the lead up to the festival, which traditionally takes place on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. |
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In 2014 a lunar coin series begun being minted annually in celebration of Lunar New Year and in 2016 a series featuring The Queen's Beasts began. |
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It was once called lunar caustic because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists, who believed that silver was associated with the moon. |
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In a rehearsal for the first lunar landing, the Apollo 10 lunar module barnstorms the Moon just than 10 miles from its surface. |
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Among the rarer optical effects associated with the moon are also moonbows or lunar rainbows. |
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At that time the chief method of determining longitude was by using the reported times of lunar eclipses in different countries. |
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The gravitational interaction of the moon with these waves would, in turn, modify the lunar orbit. |
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In addition, he constructed an exquisitely detailed lunar model and presented it to the king. |
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These early humans used manganese and iron oxides to paint pictures and may have created one early lunar calendar around 15,000 years ago. |
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The event was unorthodox and comprised space elevators, lunar infrastructure, as well astronomy. |
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According to the Metonic cycle, a lunar calendar begins on the same solar date every 19 years. |
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Some stones in the circle have been aligned with the midwinter sunrise and various lunar positions. |
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Well, the lunar eclipse, Wednesday, presents a pop quiz on the subject. |
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In a lunar volcanic eruption, a pyroclastic cloud would follow local relief, resulting in an often sinuous track. |
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But they have also revealed lunar soil compositions with more sodium than that of typical anorthosite crust. |
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The study analyzes the interactions on the Moon among electrostatic adhesive forces, the angle of incidence of the sun's rays, and lunar gravity. |
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The 14th day of the lunar month according to the Gregorian system is figured as the ninth or tenth day according to the Julian. |
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However, they remained very expensive and the lunar distance method continued to be used for some decades. |
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According to the extant documents, the date of this mosque goes back to 1240 Hejira computed according to lunar calendar. |
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A mariner with a chronometer could check its reading using a lunar determination of Greenwich time. |
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The Inca calendar was essentially lunisolar, as two calendars were maintained in parallel, one solar and one lunar. |
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The LSP system consists of 20-40 lunar power bases, situated on the eastern and western edges of the moon, as seen from earth. |
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A double lunar rainbow appears, prismatically diffusing the perfect white orb. |
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Wilkinson, New test of equivalence principle from lunar laser ranging, Phys. |
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The Babylonians discovered that lunar eclipses recurred in a repeating cycle known as a saros. |
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It was said that the partial lunar eclipse that occurred on 22 May 1453 represented a fulfillment of a prophecy of the city's demise. |
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Some rites are oriented towards seasonal changes, and may be fixed by the solar or lunar calendar. |
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A good lunar lander or Pong-type game was all you needed to strike it rich! |
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Solar and lunar eclipses were considered to be especially dangerous events that could bring catastrophe upon the world. |
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Even in these traditions, remnants of male lunar deities, like Menelaus, remain. |
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Then the diviner cites another omen, whose protasis describes the appearance of the sun within a lunar halo, a seemingly impossible event. |
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This was a lunar calendar that was used to document the phases of the moon. |
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The spacecraft will make a comprehensive study of the solar wind, utilizing dual lunar swingby orbits to sample regions close to and farther away from the Earth. |
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It is a lunar calendar with days lasting from sunset to sunset. |
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After our bracing visit to the Cliffs of Moher, we passed through the lunar landscape of The Burren, an uneven limestone pavement on the seashore. |
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Pacheco is said to have been the first to notice their connection to the moon and establish rules for predicting the progress of tides by reference to lunar observations. |
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There were some volcanic glass beads created by a lunar eruption three and a half billion years ago and found by astronauts on the Apollo 17 mission. |
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By 1960, NASA had sketched the outline for a decadelong effort toward unmanned and then manned lunar explorations, as well as sending spacecraft to Venus and Mars. |
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Then a calculation with logarithms or graphical tables requiring ten to fifteen minutes of work would convert the observed angle to a geocentric lunar distance. |
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Gull predation on Cassin's Auklet varies with the lunar cycle. |
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But twenty-eight has even further numerological significance in addition to being the second perfect number and the number of days in the lunar month as Walker points out. |
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In the meantime, Columbus mesmerized the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse for February 29, 1504, using the Ephemeris of the German astronomer Regiomontanus. |
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In his view, the incisions were not periodic notations or lunar calendars. |
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Kaguya is the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program. |
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A classic example is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, in which convicts and political dissidents are transported to lunar colonies. |
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The second of total lunar eclipse tetrad will occur before the dawn. |
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However, the published literature does not provide strong support for a correlation between spawning of most lutjanid species and any single lunar phase. |
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Addressing the challenges of transporting materials to the moon, the study is investigating the use of lunar soil, known as regolith, as building matter. |
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Most of the people I was working with had helped design the Lunar Module, and we watched the LM-5 sitting on the lunar surface with a special interest. |
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From the 5th century onward this cycle set its equinox to 25 March and fixed Easter to the Sunday falling in the 14th to the 20th of the lunar month inclusive. |
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Nair's enthusiasm stems from the findings of the moon minerology mapper on board Chandrayaan-1 that covered about 97 per cent of the lunar surface. |
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The dichotomy between maria and highlands dominates lunar mineralogy. |
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By that time, based on the results of lunar surface exploration by unmanned space probes, we will designate most promising places for lunar expeditions and lunar bases. |
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My favorite family tradition is to eat small Chinese sweets known as moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which celebrates lunar worship and joyful family gatherings. |
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And by the end of the Apollo moon-landing program, NASA was allowing common grocery items like bread slices, canned meats, and peanut butter and jellies on lunar missions. |
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The team also analyzed Apollo lunar seismograms using array processing, techniques that identify and distinguish signal sources of moonquakes and other seismic activity. |
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In 1963, NASA astronomer Winifred Cameron proposed that the lunar equivalent of terrestrial pyroclastic flows may have formed sinuous rilles on the Moon. |
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However, it was the Maya that developed the calendar to its maximum sophistication, recording lunar and solar cycles, eclipses and movements of planets with great accuracy. |
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