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Sentence Examples In the star system, there are six planets, five that are inhabitable, as well as moons. A rather fetching photograph of young Dave, grinning beside a milk float in Glasgow many moons ago, appeared in Friday's newspapers. Atlas and other moons exist outside the main ring system, as do the two F ring shepherd moons, Prometheus and Pandora. The stars and moons were shimmering gold, and the background color was navy. Examples of places where a biosphere might be built include the moon, other moons of the solar system, and planets such as Mars. Once it enters orbit, it will begin a four-year scientific tour of the planet and its moons. Other planets and moons in the solar system have been volcanically active in the distant past. Orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to release a probe that will travel to one of the planet's moons, Titan. It happens that Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, which are captured asteroids orbiting very close to that planet. Telescopes on the ground, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, have also discovered small moons around these planets. Over many millions of years, the matter within our solar system has coalesced into many moons, nine planets and the star that we call the sun. Observational astronomers use telescopes, on Earth and in space, to study objects ranging from planets and moons to distant galaxies. Of all the moons circling all the planets in the solar system, only Saturn's moon, Titan, is known to have an atmosphere. Outer space was a vivacious place, filled with planets and stars, moons and black holes, supernovas and asteroid belts. Modern interplanetary spacecraft explore their target planets and moons with the aid of robots, and these robots are also becoming very small. But what about the geologies of the nine planets and over sixty moons of the solar system? Or would they sing that song that they did sing together all those moons ago. Many moons ago I wrote about the trials and tribulations of shooting a commercial calendar. The fight from a few moons ago had gained me some respect, if not that much. Many moons ago I had a landlady who claimed to remember the days when the road through Bilsdale was no more than a rough track. Show More Sentences So other than the lower interest rates, why are we clamouring to buy what we shunned just a few moons ago? Many moons ago, though, the monument was a landmark for travellers heading to Worsley Village. Many moons ago, actually about 24 years to the day, I was very nearly run down by a bus. Many moons ago, a Spanish football team travelled to the Olympic Games in Belgium, where they acquitted themselves well, winning many fans. The only lights left in the room were the moons beaming though the cracks in the boarded shutters. In addition to the pull of Jupiter's gravity, Io also feels the strain from the gravitational fields of Jupiter's other large moons. I know that a corporate did approach the Alliance many moons ago and request a wee policy change and was told to naff off. She had pulled up the lower edges of her trunks and exposed half moons of untanned flesh. It was more than sixty years before the next two Uranian moons, Ariel and Umbriel, were discovered. The moons are orbiting even closer to the planet than the five major Uranian satellites, which are several hundred miles wide. Unlike other large Uranian moons, the surface of Umbriel has remained unchanged since the early times of the Solar System. Several of the Uranian moons can be seen, along with bright areas on the cloud-canopied planet itself. Saturn, its moons and highly structured rings live inside a huge cavity in the solar wind created by the planet's strong magnetic field. Syzygy of the sun, Earth, and moon occur twice a month, at the full and new moons. The Galileo unmanned spacecraft is about to conclude a 14-year voyage of exploration to Jupiter and its moons. Full moons were recorded according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, eastern standard time. Begin removing three half-moon mounting bolts from each side, set half moons and bolts aside. The bed itself was a dark blue with silver moons and stars, much as the bed set she used for college. Their findings suggest the purported moons arose from collisions or were captured by the planet shortly after the solar system formed. She turned towards the door, her eyes still wide as moons and her face as pale as the orb itself. Show More Sentences It will spend four years in orbit around the gas giant, exploring the planet and its rings and moons. The moons of Mars are named for the mythical horses that drew the chariot of Mars, the god of war. A man who collects dead animals from farms does so in succession to his father, who established the little business many moons ago. Circles are the subject matter of her new work and she uses them to explore her fascination with planets, moons, suns, fireballs and comets. Inlaid furniture, kilim rugs with horsehair tassels, and multicolored lamps with crescent moons complete the decorative program. Read Eco's novel, which is full of Paris meridians, lunar parallaxes, the moons of Jupiter, and the Powder of Sympathy. Native Americans have also traditionally called the September and October moons the harvest and hunter's moons. Harvest and hunter's moons are low in the sky, look bigger, and are yellower. The position at which the Moon rises above the horizon is a feature giving rise to the harvest and hunter's moons at this time of year. One could quite quickly determine the length of the synodic month by counting the days between full moons. The Galileo mission launched in 1989 included a photopolarimeter-radiometer to determine thermal radiation on Jupiter and its moons. There are infinitesimal numbers of cycles of improvement and degradation, one following the other like the phases of waxing and waning moons. And yet here I am, many moons later, writing that my inner child must have keeled over somewhere in the ensuing years. Variations of these popular half moons, also called pirozhki, are found throughout other regions including the Ukraine and Russia. Although planets, moons and planetesimals may seem to be very different astronomically, their common origin shows that this is not so. Like the hills and valleys on a contour map the gravity wells of suns, planets, moons, and planetesimals showed up. He looked at each of the closest planets and their moons, contemplating each one's probability to hold an alien base. It was a long, silvery iridescent gown covered with glittering stars and moons. There were 44 close fly-by passes of Titan, 8 more of smaller moons, and between 50 and 100 more distant passes of these other moons. She was wearing a light blue winter coat with matching earrings in the shapes of crescent moons. Show More Sentences The night was silent, all three moons were alive in the sky now and their glowing crescents cast an eerie glow across his face. Even getting to planets or moons relatively close to us requires passengers to spend months or years in some form of cryogenic stasis. If you insist on telling time by the moon, full moons just don't fit properly into a year. The object was about the size of two full moons when the moon is high in the sky. The biggest bores occur around the equinox, and maximum bores occur one to three days after new and full moons. There are twelve months in a year because there are twelve full moons in a year. She remembers it saying they are rare to spot for they constantly travel and only appear at night during full moons. The study period was from January 1999 through February 2001, or twenty six full moons and months. A typical Galilean telescope with which Jupiter's moons could be observed was configured as follows. During the low light of new moons, the satellites are sensitive enough to capture the network of electric lights girdling the globe. The fact that the moons move in a circular prograde orbit, close to the asteroid's equatorial plane, also lends support to this scenario. Despite this bombardment, all ring moons have erosional lifetimes that exceed the solar system's age. The moons of the outer planets in the solar system are also rich with various kinds of ices. He discovered moons orbiting Jupiter, phases of Venus, sunspots, and features on the Moon that made it seem more like a planet. In a prolific career, Galileo's discoveries, including phases of Venus and moons orbiting Jupiter dealt a death blow to geocentric theory. Soon her palm resembled a chart of lunar phases, four thin moons, their tiny scarlet crescents crossing the lines of galaxies and Fate. The other moons probably accreted within the nebula in which Saturn itself formed. The first recorded sighting was by Galileo, who observed its conjunction with Jupiter in 1612 and mistook it for one of the Jovian moons. The orbiter spent eight years scrutinising the whole Jovian system and making multiple fly-bys of the four main moons. Intriguingly, this class of worlds includes the Martian moons, from which fully reversible Mars missions could ultimately be staged. Show More Sentences She wore purple pajama bottoms that were kind of dirty, very wrinkly and had little moons on them. Seasonal variation in the moon's path through the night sky changes the variance in ambient moonlight between proximate new moons and full moons. Galileo's observations showed that the four moons revolved around Jupiter, not Earth. Besides the planet's multicolored rings and three moons there was little else above the green and blue world. Contrasting full moons seen near perigee and apogee indicate how much the apparent size of the Moon varies each month. They reported 12 more moons orbiting Saturn, putting the ringed giant back ahead of Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites. Researchers say they will be on the lookout for even more Saturn moons, and will seek close-ups of the ones just found. Add black holes and photographs of asteroidal moons around Jupiter, and our world seems increasingly expansive. Its system of moons gives this world a beautiful sky and astronavigators a headache. A team of international astronomers has found five new moons orbiting Neptune. Spacecraft have flown by every major planet, and most of their important moons, in the solar system. This brings the unofficial count of Saturnian moons to 30, two more than the tally of Jupiter, the biggest planet of our solar system. By 1613 Galileo believed that his telescopic observations of the moons of Jupiter proved that the Earth and planets revolved round the Sun. Since there are 29.5 days between full moons, the occurrence of a second full moon in a calendar month is not a very regular phenomenon. He looked at the star maps to see if there were any habitable planets or moons in the area. Full moons do not cause more mental hospital admissions, psychiatric disturbances, homicide or other crime. The rest of Saturn's moons are named after individual Titans like Enceladus and Mimas. The Church has labels that it attaches to each of Sundays closest to the full moons in a year, because all the moveable feasts are phased against Easter. Satellites and small space stations orbited the planet, along with three moons, one of which was covered in domes and crossed with covered roads to make it somewhat habitable. The comforter was a dark blue, with silver moons and lavender stars on it. Show More Sentences The larger impact sites have prompted speculation that collisions in Phoebe's past could have blasted off enough material to have formed Saturn's smaller retrograde moons. The large globe with clustered nebulas and speckled stars and solar systems that were scattered with planets, suns and moons rotated slowly and gently. That means Chariklo likely has one or more tiny shepherd moons itself, making the centaur a miniature solar system. We had rolls and butter, corn on the cob, mashed potatoes, cabbage salad, and pastries that were shaped like crescent moons and stuffed with roast meat and apples. This is because the two moons for the summer season eclipse the two suns. As such, they allow us a peek at the chemistry before the planets and moons evolved into what we know them as today. Cassini's tables of Jupiter's moons were used to determine longitudes by providing a universal time with which to compare the local time at various positions on the Earth. Many moons ago it seems now, dental treatment and glasses were all free to everyone but now unless ur still at school or are unemployed you have to pay for it! I remember many nights outside in the freezing cold with my father, looking through our telescope at the moons of Jupiter or the constellation Orion. Some small moons orbiting Jupiter, as well as Phobos and Deimos, may have originally been asteroids captured into orbit by the gravity of Mars and Jupiter. The lure of the three frigid Galilean moons is that beneath their thick crust of ice may lie vast reservoirs of liquid water that harbor, or once harbored, life. These moons and rings had existed for millennia, but they were beyond human perception until the invention of a device that could magnify the faint images. In drifting, they may sweep through locations where other moons disturb them, making their orbits eccentric or inclined relative to the planet's equator. Many moons ago, I had a friend who repaired electronics for a living. A number of moons in the solar system have global oceans beneath surfaces of solid ice or ice mixed with other materials. The 1960s were full of ballrooms of no chance, lacquered townies and long stepping country men who came looking for their hearts delights under fat Harvest moons. It had been many moons since I've heard a pop star do anything but lip-sync. The orrery in the corner steadily creaks out the minutes of the day, its rods and disks spinning the tiny planets, suns, and moons over and around the world. She had gotten cut on the thigh in a practice session, but that had been six moons ago and the wound had not been so deep as to not be able to heal quickly and fully. The president wants to establish a permanent moon base and a launch pad that could be used from there to launch first unmanned exploration of Mars and Jupiter's moons. Show More Sentences The main objective is to enhance our understanding of the Solar System by exploring the planets, their moons, and small bodies, such as comets and asteroids. As the science of robotics advances, the search for resources and signs of life on distant planets and moons will be carried out increasingly by rovers and other robots. The concert happened to be performed by an old acquaintance of mine, who I used to know many moons ago, when we were both angelic little trebles in local parish church choir. As our return flight curved past Wakatobi, the mounds, ridges and huge crescent moons of the reefs we had been diving shimmered pale topaz in shallow pools of turquoise. These huge aggregations are synchronized by the highest semilunar tides that occur after new and full moons. The smashup flung material that consolidated into the family of moons observed around Pluto today. Unlike the icy moons of giant planets, Pluto cannot be heated by gravitational interactions with a much larger planetary body. Neither spherical nor ellipsoidal, as most moons are, Iapetus looks like a walnut, with a bulging waistline and squashed poles. Lisa Marie Ward I use to work behind there in the spinneret department many moons ago. But Doog convinces Jeremy he's for real, along with other Toonies from Cartoon Land, with its yellow sky, two blue moons and bright red stars. After lunch we decided to festoon the tree with garlands of electric loons, moons, spoons, puccoons, cocoons, bassoons, baboons and vinegaroons. View the sun through solar telescopes, learn how to make telescopes and, in the evening, see Jupiter and its Galilean moons. A EUR1BILLION mission to look for signs of life on the frozen moons of giant planet Jupiter was given the go-ahead yesterday. See, if you don't cut that rope, inside o' three moons your dearsome fam'ly be dead, I vow it! Cyan full-burned the thrusters to gain speed, turning the shuttle away from the planet toward the distant moons. Unlike most moons of the solar system, ours has the heft, the gravitational gravitas, to pull itself into a sphere. Little half moons clustered underneath her cheekbones, like faint hoofmarks. Maximum bores occur between one and three days after new and full moons, and smaller ones on the days that precede and follow the maxima. On the previous evening we had discovered with delight a luna with the fabulous moons, one on each pale green wing. We've been waiting for you many madsome moons, and the time is ripe for the harvest. Show More Sentences Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood. In fact, some of the smaller of the moons of Jupiter's 63 known moons may have taken this path to moonhood. Swift crater, a crater on Mars's moon Deimos, is named after Jonathan Swift, who predicted the existence of the moons of Mars. This process is known as cryovolcanism, and is apparently most common on the moons of the outer planets of the solar system. Methane has been detected or is believed to exist on all planets of the solar system and most of the larger moons. Other icy moons may also have internal oceans, or may once have had internal oceans that have now frozen. Unstable resonances with Saturn's inner moons give rise to gaps in the rings of Saturn. It can be surmised that volcanism exists on planets and moons of this type in other planetary systems as well. Through the deep grass the faces of the three children glowed like pensive moons. However, astronomers have proposed ways that giant planets could develop bulkier moons. This work was further refined by Lagrange and Laplace, allowing the masses of the planets and moons to be estimated from their perturbations. Some planets and moons accumulate enough heat to drive geologic processes such as volcanism and tectonics. Before good chronometers were available, longitude measurements were based on the transit of the moon, or the positions of the moons of Jupiter. To be successful, this method required the observation of the moons from the deck of a moving ship. You can see in the table below a moon scorecard for the giant planets, which have more moons than any of the smaller planets closer to Earth. Mini moons typically enter the Earth system near one of the Earth-Sun Lagrange points. A small telescope or even good binoculars will pick out the main cloud belts, the Great Red Spot and, of course, the four inner Galilean moons. Pluto's perviously known moons are also named for Greek and Roman mythological characters. Last November, Russia launched the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to explore Phobos, one of Mars's two moons. Jupiter's four Galilean moons are an easy target with binoculars providing they are mounted on a tripod or supported in some other way. Show More Sentences Incidentally, Falconer's brother Henry Madan had, in 1878, suggested the names Phobos and Deimos for the moons of Mars. Anyone taking a trip to the local planetarium would have heard that the planets have 60 or so moons orbiting them on neat, nearly circular paths. He could have meant that spring and neap tides were caused by new and full moons, which is partially correct in that spring tides occur at those times. According to the process that may have formed the Solar System planets, the surrounding discs of material around the gas giants gradually coalesced into moons. That daily tides should be caused by full moons and new moons is manifestly wrong, which would be a surprising view in a Greek astronomer and mathematician of the times. Many moons ago, the Not The Nine O'Clock News show ran a spoof sketch called Gob of the Season where the greatest televised football flobs were replayed in slow motion. Planetary science is the study of the assemblage of planets, moons, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, and other bodies orbiting the Sun, as well as extrasolar planets. Pictures of planets and moons are usually presented as globoids. Examples from Classical Literature Thus, when the epact is 17, the new and full moons of March fall on the 13th and 28th. Above him on the bank, silhouetting against the moons, the killer robot stopped and its blaster swivelled slowly down. Theirs should be sirenian moons and dawns, and life would be this dream's perfect fulfilment. When we find Craven, we'll find the contraption that's blanketing Jupiter and its moons. The epact thus continues to vary until at the end of nineteen years the new moons return as at first. Fight all influences to bedeck it with beds of flowers in forms of stars and moons and other celestial and terrestrial designs. Since then, five Uranian moons have been discovered, as has a bizarre set of dark, improbably skinny rings. Seven Saturnian moons are visible, including Enceladus on the left side of the image. The last of these, our guide said, had occurred about five moons before. Her spirit has been for many moons in the happy hunting ground. He talks of her constantly, writes poetry, and moons about in a most suspicious manner. Yes, Heathcliff,' he replied, glancing from me up to the windows, which reflected a score of glittering moons, but showed no lights from within. Consequently the craft will simply hurtle past, gathering data and taking pictures of Pluto and its moons Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra. Enceladus, Titan, Dione, Mimas, Rhea, Tethys, Iapetus, Hyperion and Phoebe were just some of Saturn's known moons. Either there were two moons, then, or these strangers were imposters, designing scamps, false deities! Life is a mad dance in the domain of flux, wherein appearances in mighty tides ebb and flow, chained to the wheels of moons beyond our ken. Here, under her few square yards of thatch, she watched winds, and snows, and rains, gorgeous sunsets, and successive moons at their full. I would sing, loudly and tunelessly, and bury my hands deep as the mud turned my nails into black crescent moons. The icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, such as Europa and Enceladus, are likely to have undergone cometary bombardment. Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised With idiot moons and stars retracing stars? Show More Sentences However, unlike the other main quartet of large Uranian moons, Miranda's orbit is inclined slightly. She cut an uneven circle of half moons in it and put it in the oven. These questions were followed by a stargazing session in which the students were able to see the planet Jupiter with four of its Galilean moons. The sun obscures the lesser lights, and quenches even the moons light. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan. But Umbriel, one of Uranus' five large moons, doesn't fit the pattern. Titan, Mimas, Rhea and Dione are four of the known moons of which planet? A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of moons? Words that rhyme with moons What is the adverb for moons? What is the adjective for moons? What is the noun for moons? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words moonrise moonraker moonquakes moon phase moonlit night moonlit moonscape moonseed moonset moon shaped moonshine moonshiner 5-letter Words Starting With m mo moo moon