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17 hours ago · The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis "month" (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb "measure" (of time).
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- Far Side of The Moon
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4 days ago · Moon, Earth’s sole natural satellite and nearest celestial body. Known since prehistoric times, it is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun. Its name in English, like that of Earth, is of Germanic and Old English derivation.
- James D. Burke
4 days ago · Giant-impact hypothesis. In Wikipedia. By NASA/JPL-Caltech, Public Domain, Wikipedia. Moons form through a variety of processes, depending on the circumstances of their planetary systems. One such method is through accretion, in which moons are formed through the same disk of gas and dust that gave rise to their parent planets.
3 days ago · Michael Collins, U.S. astronaut who was the command module pilot of Apollo 11, the first crewed lunar landing mission. Collins circled the Moon in Columbia, while Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed in the lunar module Eagle. Learn more about Collins’s life and career.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1 day ago · The first human landing on the Moon was in 1969 during NASA's Apollo 11 mission, and since then, several missions have been sent to study the Moon's geology, surface features, and potential for future human exploration and colonization.
17 hours ago · The history of Earth is divided into four great eons, starting 4,540 mya with the formation of the planet. Each eon saw the most significant changes in Earth's composition, climate and life. Each eon is subsequently divided into eras, which in turn are divided into periods, which are further divided into epochs . Eon.
5 days ago · Notable impact events include the hypothesized Late Heavy Bombardment, which would have occurred early in the history of the Earth–Moon system, and the confirmed Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, believed to be the cause of the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
