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10 hours ago · The Moon is Earth 's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Over time Earth's gravity has caused tidal locking, causing the same side of the Moon to always face Earth.
- Natural Satellite
The Moon orbiting around Earth (observed by the Deep Space...
- Moon (Disambiguation)
Moon, a character in the Tom Stoppard play The Real...
- View Source
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- Far Side of The Moon
Photograph of the far side of the Moon, with Mare Orientale...
- Near Side of The Moon
The names of the major maria and some craters on the near...
- Tidal Locking
Tidal locking results in the Moon rotating about its axis in...
- Planetary-Mass Object
Planetary-mass satellites larger than Pluto, the largest...
- Satellite Planet
Planetary-mass moons larger than Pluto, the largest Solar...
- List of Proposed Missions to The Moon
A replica of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to land on the...
- Orbit of The Moon
Elliptic shape. The orbit of the Moon is a nearly circular...
- Natural Satellite
10 hours ago · v. t. e. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin —the first man in the outer space. The Soviet space program [1] ( Russian: Космическая программа СССР, romanized : Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR) was the national space program of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), active from 1955 until the dissolution of the Soviet ...
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10 hours ago · The name Rusthawelia was kept (and discovery credited to Arend); the name 525 Adelaide was reused for the object 1908 EKa discovered October 21, 1908, by Joel Hastings Metcalf . 715 Transvaalia and 933 Susi. The object 1911 LX discovered April 22, 1911, by H. E. Wood was named 715 Transvaalia.
10 hours ago · Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, founders of the Unification Church. The Unification Church ( Korean : 통일교) is a new religious movement, derived from Christianity, whose members are called Unificationists or sometimes informally Moonies. Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) began gaining followers after the Second World War.
10 hours ago · Second tallest tower in the world. 3: CN Tower: 553.3 m (1,815 ft) 1976: Concrete Canada: Toronto: Tallest freestanding structure in the world 1975–2007, and the world's tallest tower until 2009; tallest in the western hemisphere: 4: Ostankino Tower: 540.1 m (1,772 ft) 1967 Russia: Moscow: Tallest freestanding structure in the world, 1967 ...
10 hours ago · 9546. The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, dubbed the " Great American Eclipse " by some media, [1] was a total solar eclipse visible within a band that spanned the contiguous United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts. It was also visible as a partial solar eclipse from as far north as Nunavut in northern Canada to as far south as ...
10 hours ago · The World Press Freedom Index ( WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year. It intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations, and netizens ...