As Apollo 16 was the penultimate mission in the Apollo program and there was no new hardware or procedures to test on the lunar surface, the last two missions ( the other being Apollo 17 ) presented opportunities for astronauts to clear up some uncertainties in understanding the Moon's properties.

Rachel White Scheuering writes that, when SEPP began, it was affiliated with the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a think tank run by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

According to Pamela Des Barres, Moon's girlfriend for three years, Moon had nightmares about the incident that woke both of them during the night.

Predictions for the Moon's Leonid impacts also noted that in 2000 the side of the Moon facing the stream was away from the Earth but that impacts should be in number enough to raise a cloud of particles kicked off the Moon by impacts would cause a detectable increase in the sodium tail of the Moon.

This is a label which members of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church find demeaning and offensive, and I'd like to apologize for its use.

The Moon's low surface gravity is also a concern, as it is unknown whether 1 / 6g is enough to maintain human health for long periods.

However, in 1854, J C Adams caused the question to be re-opened by finding an error in Laplace's computations: it turned out that only about half of the Moon's apparent acceleration could be accounted for on Laplace's basis by the change in the Earth's orbital eccentricity.

" The name alluded to Moon's stated intention for his organization to be a unifying force for all Christian denominations.

* January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.

Other mechanisms that have been suggested at various times for the Moon's origin are that the Moon was spun off from the Earth's molten surface by centrifugal force, that it was formed elsewhere and subsequently, was captured by the Earth's gravitational field, or that the Moon formed at the same time and place as the Earth from the same accretion disk.

* 280 BC – Aristarchus of Samos offers the first definite discussion of the possibility of a heliocentric cosmos, and uses the size of the Earth's shadow on the Moon to estimate that the Moon's radius is one-third that of the Earth, and to estimate sizes and distances for the Moon and Sun

Levi also showed that Ptolemy's model for the Lunar orbit, though reproducing correctly the evolution of the Moon's position, fails completely in predicting the apparent sizes of the Moon in its motion.

He used Hipparchus ' model to calculate the Sun's longitude, and made corrections for the Moon's motion and its parallax ( Evans 1998, pp. 251 – 255 ).

Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Castilian ( for the Argentine Republic ), Chinese, Kongo, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Gaelic, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kaffir, Karen, Lettish, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Welsh, with a few sermons in Moon's and Braille type for the blind.

The Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ), popularly known as the " Moon Buggy ," was developed by MSFC to provide transportation for exploring a limited amount of the Moon's surface.

A day after securing the Democratic nomination for president, then-Vice President Al Gore held a rally at Moon's high school gym on March 16, 2000.

Nilsson, distraught over another friend's death in his flat, and having little need for the property, sold it to Moon's bandmate Pete Townshend and consolidated his life in Los Angeles.

On The Who's famous The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour appearance in 1967, Townshend used a Vox Cheetah guitar, which he only used for that performance ; and the guitar was smashed to smithereens by Townshend and Moon's drum explosion.

Astrologers also use other ephemerides that include Lilith, a term they use variously for the apogee of the Moon or the second focus of the Moon's orbit.

In the third episode of the series ( March 25, 1940 ), the Plushbottoms trade Moon's only suit to pay for a collect telegram and learn they are owners of a goldmine.

Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.

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.

Finally, the spacecraft enters the Moon's sphere of influence, making a hyperbolic lunar swingby.

In Moon's biography, Full Moon, longtime friend and personal assistant Dougal Butler, observed: " He ( Moon ) would do anything if he knew that there were enough people around who didn't want him to do it.

Moon's destructiveness led to The Who being banned from hotel chains around the world, including Holiday Inn, Sheraton, and Hilton Hotels, as well as the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

The phrase " Dear Boy " had became a catchphrase of Moon's when he started affecting a pompous English accent around 1969, particularly when ordering drinks.

Thelunar phase depends on the Moon's position in orbit around the Earth and the Earth's position in orbit around the sun.

Solar and lunar eclipses are not observed every month because the plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth is tilted by about five degrees with respect to the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun ( the plane of the ecliptic ).

The periods of the Moon's orbit around the Earth and the Earth's orbit around the Sun are believed to be independent, and appear to have no known physical resonance.

Pierre-Simon Laplace produced in 1786 a theoretical analysis giving a basis on which the Moon's mean motion should accelerate in response to perturbational changes in the eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth around the Sun.

This increases the Moon's angular momentum around the Earth ( and moves the Moon to a higher orbit with a slower period ).

The plane of the Moon's orbit around the Earth lies close to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun ( the ecliptic ), rather than in the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the Earth ( the equator ) as is usually the case with planetary satellites.

Eclipses ( up to three ) occur during an eclipse season, a one-or two-month period twice a year, around the time when the Sun is near the nodes of the Moon's orbit.

Luna 17 and Luna 21 carried vehicles that roamed around on the Moon's terrain ( see Lunokhod programme ).

Small daily changes and noticeable semi-annual changes in the timing of sunsets are driven by the axial tilt of Earth, daily rotation of the Earth, the planet's movement in its annual elliptical orbit around the Sun, and the Earth and Moon's paired revolutions around each other.

* Libration in longitude results from the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit around Earth ; the Moon's rotation sometimes leads and sometimes lags its orbital position.

* Libration in latitude results from a slight inclination between the Moon's axis of rotation and the normal to the plane of its orbit around Earth.

* Diurnal libration is a small daily oscillation due to the Earth's rotation, which carries an observer first to one side and then to the other side of the straight line joining Earth's and the Moon's centers, allowing the observer to look first around one side of the Moon and then around the other — because the observer is on the surface of the Earth, not at its center.

The movement of the Moon on the ecliptic is shown similarly to that of the Sun, although the speed is much faster ( due to the Moon's own orbit around the Earth ).

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The scientific instrument package had a mass of 17. 8 kg and consisted of an image scanning infrared television system to study the Moon's surface to a resolution of 0. 5 degrees, an ionization chamber to measure radiation in space, a diaphragm / microphone assembly to detect micrometeorites, a spin-coil magnetometer to measure magnetic fields to 5 microgauss, and temperature-variable resistors to record the spacecraft's internal conditions.