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If the Moon just revolved around the Earth, there would be no way to tell what fraction of the Moon's or the Earth's gravity was caused by each form of mass, since only the total can be measured.
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If other effects were ignored, tidal acceleration would continue until the rotational period of the Earth matched the orbital period of the Moon.
If the friction and heat dissipation were not present, the Moon's gravitational force on the tidal bulge would rapidly ( within two days ) bring the tide back into synchronization with the Moon, and the Moon would no longer recede.
If one could see a satellite in geostationary orbit, it would appear to hover at the same point in the sky, i. e., not exhibit diurnal motion, while the Sun, Moon, and stars would traverse the heavens behind it.
* If the bulk of the proto-lunar material had come from the impactor, the Moon should be enriched in siderophilic elements, when, in fact, it is deficient in those.
If a solar eclipse occurs at one new moon, which must be close to a node, then at the next full moon the Moon is already more than a day past its opposite node, and may or may not miss the Earth's shadow.
If the Moon continues to recede from the Earth due to tidal acceleration, resonances may occur which will cause large oscillations of the obliquity.
If you don't know what to do, don't do anything .— Conrad's advice for working in space, quoted in the book From the Earth to the Moon.
If this were true, then the Moon would be covered to a very great depth as there are limited forms of erosion to remove this material.
The song " Mississippi Moon " is mainly inspired on the song " If I Could Fly ", which King's X played in shows after they had changed their name to its definite version, King's X.
If a spacecraft placed at the Earth – Moon point is given even a slight nudge towards the Moon, for instance, the Moon's gravity will now be greater and the spacecraft will be pulled away from the point.
* If the Man in the Moon Were a Coon, by Fred Fischer, Will Rossiter ( pub ) ( 1905 ) ( this was his first hit ; it combined two then-popular song themes, Moon songs and Coon songs )
If these five limbs, for example, the five attributes depending upon Moon, are accurate, an almanac is held to be reliable, because other elements are not so difficult to compute due to their slow rates of change.
She has had continued success in films such as The Bostonians ( 1984 ), Dune ( 1984 ), Silverado ( 1985 ), Eleni ( 1985 ), Waiting for the Moon ( 1987 ), She-Devil ( 1989 ), Kindergarten Cop ( 1990 ), If Looks Could Kill ( 1991 ), Rain Without Thunder ( 1992 ), Twenty Bucks ( 1993 ), Younger and Younger ( 1993 ), Prêt-à-Porter ( 1994 ), Pocahontas ( 1995 ), The Relic ( 1997 ), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World ( 1998 ), Dragonfly ( 2002 ), Yours Mine and Ours ( 2005 ) and Stranger Than Fiction ( 2006 ).
His other popular-song compositions include " Meet Me Under the Wisteria ", " By the Light of the Silvery Moon ", " I Can't Tell You Why I Love You but I Do ", " Goodbye, Little Girl, Goodbye ", " I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave ", " I'll Be With You When the Roses Bloom Again ", " He's My Pal ", " Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield ", " In Zanzibar ", " If a Girl Like You Loved a Boy Like Me ", " Jimmy Valentine ", " If I Were a Millionaire ", " Laddie Boy " and " In My Merry Oldsmobile ".
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If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
If you're lyin' out in the hammock at night, and it gets kinda cool -- you know -- you just take these sides with the fringe on -- see -- and wrap 'em right over you.
If we go into this Common Market, we might just as well stop talking about Constitutional guarantees, Connally Amendments or, for that matter, conservatism in general.
If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.
If you wish to budget closely on transportation, saving your extra dollars to indulge in luxuries, one agency lists the small Fiat 500 at only $1.26 a day plus $.03 a kilometer and the Fiat 2100 Station Wagon, seating six, at just $1.10 a day and $.105 a kilometer.
If you drive greater distances than that, you'll just be skimming the surface and will never discover the enchantment, fascination and beauty which lured you in the first place to explore the hinterlands.
If this is the case, one would expect that not only the various procedures just mentioned which alter the hypothalamic balance would influence emotional state and behavior but that emotion itself would act likewise.
If asked how she gets her impressions, she probably can only say that she `` just gets them '' -- some more vividly than others.
If the acting captain wanted his acting lieutenant to sit on his ass around the station all night, Killpath would just have to go out and drag Gun back by the heels once an hour ; ;
On my way out I told her, `` If you should eh just happen to see your husband, get him to give himself up.
The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).
If you know that he ( God ) is just ( righteous ), know that everyone also who does what is just ( righteous ) has been born of him.
If this is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe is expanding.
If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.
I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.
Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".
The case of " beauty " is different from mere " agreeableness " because, " If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others ; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things.
If the ball has left the field along the sidelines, the referee must decide which team touched the ball last, and award a restart stroke to the opposing team, just like football's throw-in.
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