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second and lunar
Apollo 16 was slated to be the second of the " J-missions ," an Apollo mission type featuring the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle ( LRV ), increased scientific capability, and lunar surface stays of three days.
During the second half of the day, John Young and Charlie Duke again entered the Lunar Module to power it up and check its systems, as well as perform housekeeping tasks in preparation for lunar landing.
After spending 54 minutes on the slope, Young and Duke climbed aboard the lunar rover en route to the day's second stop, station five, a crater across.
After returning to the LM to wrap up the second lunar excursion, the two astronauts climbed back inside the landing craft's cabin, sealing and pressurizing the interior after 7 hours, 23 minutes, and 26 seconds of EVA time, breaking a record that had been set on Apollo 15.
Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).
This SI second referred to atomic time was later verified by Markowitz ( 1988 ) to be in agreement, within 1 part in 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >, with the second of ephemeris time as determined from lunar observations.
In early planning for the Apollo Program, it had been assumed that two Saturn V launch vehicles would be used for each lunar mission: one for sending the crew aboard a Lunar Surface Module ( LSM ) to lunar orbit, landing, and returning, and a second for sending an LSM-Truck ( LSM-T ) with all of the equipment, supplies, and transport vehicle for use by the crew while on the surface.
That is, months reflect the lunar cycle, but then intercalary months ( e. g. " second Adar " in the Hebrew calendar ) are added to bring the calendar year into synchronisation with the solar year.
This SI second, referred to atomic time, was later verified to be in agreement, within 1 part in 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >, with the second of ephemeris time as determined from lunar observations.
* October 31 – Michael Collins, astronaut, second person to fly around the Moon solo, Command Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first human lunar landing
A four stage Athena II using Castor 120s as both first and second stages became the first commercially developed launch vehicle to launch a lunar probe ( Lunar Prospector ) in 1998.
Lunokhod 2 robot vehicleLunokhod 2 ( vehicle 8ЕЛ № 204 ) was the second and more advanced of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program.
The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover, Lunokhod 2.
Lunokhod 2 ( Луноход, moon walker in Russian ) was the second of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of the Lunokhod program.
The Luna 21 spacecraft landed on the Moon and deployed the second Soviet lunar rover ( Lunokhod 2 ) in January, 1973.
* December 20The December 2029 lunar eclipse, the second of two Metonic twin eclipses, will occur.
A recognized winter festival, the Chinese New Year, is set by the lunar calendar, and celebrated from the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice.
In fact the Lunar Mechanism which is part of the Antikythera Mechanism depicts the motion of the Moon and its phase, for a given time, using a train of four gears with a pin and slot device which gives a variable lunar velocity that is very close to the second law of Kepler, i. e. it takes into account the fast motion of the Moon at perigee and slower motion at apogee.
Longchen Rabjampa was born at Gra-phu stod-gron in g. Yo-ru in Eastern dBus in Central Tibet on the eighth day of the second lunar month of the Earth-Male-Ape year ( i. e., Friday, 1 March 1308 ; which was at the beginning of that Tibetan calendrical year ) The date of Longchen Rabjampa's ' parinirvāṇa ' was on the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month of the Water-Female-Hare year ( i. e., Wednesday, 24 January 1364 ; which was at the end of that Tibetan calendrical year ) at O-rgyan-rdzong in Gangs-ri thod-kar, Tibet.
Operations on the second lunar day occurred from February 12 to 21, 1968.

second and primary
The 8051 microcontroller has two, a primary accumulator and a secondary accumulator, where the second is used by instructions only when multiplying ( MUL AB ) or dividing ( DIV AB ); the former splits the 16-bit result between the two 8-bit accumulators, whereas the latter stores the quotient on the primary accumulator A and the remainder in the secondary accumulator B.
He finished second to Tsongas in the New Hampshire primary, but after trailing badly in the polls and coming within single digits of winning, the media viewed it as a victory.
Aside from the genetic material of the cell, nucleic acids often play a role as second messengers, as well as forming the base molecule for adenosine triphosphate, the primary energy-carrier molecule found in all living organisms.
More often than not, a second light will be mounted to the helmet for quick transition if the primary fails.
As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.
Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).
The second treats states and the national government as the primary factors for integration.
D-channel backup allows for a second D channel in case the primary fails.
In addition to serving as a primary component of cellular membranes and binding sites for intra-and intercellular proteins, some glycerophospholipids in eukaryotic cells, such as phosphatidylinositols and phosphatidic acids are either precursors of or, themselves, membrane-derived second messengers.
Given two secondary stations, the time difference ( TD ) between the primary and first secondary identifies one curve, and the time difference between the primary and second secondary identifies another curve, the intersections of which will determine a geographic point in relation to the position of the three stations.
A second coil, with many more turns than the primary, is wound on the same iron core to form an electrical transformer.
In the primary logo, designed by sports cartoonist Ray Gatto, each part of the skyline has special meaning — at the left is a church spire, symbolic of Brooklyn, the borough of churches ; the second building from the left is the Williamsburg Savings Bank, the tallest building in Brooklyn ; next is the Woolworth Building ; after a general skyline view of midtown comes the Empire State Building ; at the far right is the United Nations Building.
The main difference between a nonpartisan blanket primary and a standard two-round system is that a second round of voting is required, even if one candidate wins an absolute majority of votes in the primary.
The primary players and the pioneers of this second wave of feminism included the likes of Shulamith Firestone, Kathie Sarachild, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Carol Hanisch, and Judith Brown.
Scuba harness with backplate and back mounted " wing " buoyancy compensator 1 ) DV / Regulator first stage 2 ) Cylinder valve 3 ) Shoulder straps 4 ) Buoyancy compensator bladder 5 ) Buoyancy compensator relief and lower manual dump valve 6 ) DV / Regulator second stages ( primary and “ octopus ”) 7 ) Console ( pressure gauge, depth gauge & compass ) 8 ) Dry-suit inflator hose 9 ) Backplate 10 ) Buoyancy compensator inflator hose and inflation valve 11 ) Buoyancy compensator mouthpiece and manual dump valve 12 ) Crotch strap 13 ) Waist straps
Viewer dissatisfaction with the ending of Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato prompted the production of a second Yamato TV season which retconned the film and presented a slightly different plot against Zōdah ( Prince Zordar in the Star Blazers dub ) and his Comet Empire, and ended without killing off the Yamato or its primary characters.
If a secondary body orbits a primary body, the forces that could tear the second body apart if its strength and internal gravity are not enough, are the tidal force and the " centrifugal force " associated with any rotation of the secondary body about its axis.
However, Steve Forbes finished first in Delaware and Arizona while paleoconservative firebrand Pat Buchanan managed early victories in Alaska and Louisiana, in addition to a strong second place in the Iowa caucuses and a surprising victory in the small but key New Hampshire primary.
Seth Green joined the cast during the second season as Oz, a high school senior who becomes a werewolf, and Willow's primary romantic interest.
Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts won the New Hampshire primary on February 18 but Clinton's second place finish, helped by his speech labeling himself " The Comeback Kid ," energized his campaign.

second and objective
" A second possible objective now occurred to the French – an Allied incursion into Alsace and an attack on the city of Strasbourg.
In one sequence, Marker repeats the same collection of shots three times with different commentary: the first one praising the Soviet Union, the second denouncing it, and the third taking an objective stance.
The alternative crossbreeding programs initiated in 1940 by Dr. Antonio Teixeira Viana had the objective of obtaining first, crossbreeds 5 / 8 Charolais and 3 / 8 Zebu and second, 3 / 8 Charolais x 5 / 8 Zebu, to evaluate which of the two was the most successful.
The second occupation was probably connected with Antoninus ' undertakings to protect the Votadini or his pride in enlarging the empire, since the retreat to the Hadrianic frontier occurred not long after his death when a more objective strategic assessment of the benefits of the Antonine Wall could be made.
For example, the personal pronouns in English can be organized into tables, using the categories of person ( first, second, third ), number ( singular vs. plural ), gender ( masculine, feminine, neuter ), and case ( subjective, objective, and possessive ).
Michael Freeden in his study Ideologies and Political Theory ( 1996 ) states that all socialists share five themes: the first is that socialism posits that society is more than a mere collection of individuals ; second, that it considers human welfare a desirable objective ; third, that it considers humans by nature to be active and productive ; fourth, it holds the belief of human equality ; and fifth, that history is progressive and will create positive change on the condition that humans work to achieve such change.
A second objective was to measure the Interplanetary Magnetic Field and charged particle environment.
A photograph was then taken of the speckle pattern formed on the wall ( strictly speaking, this also has a second subjective speckle pattern but its dimensions are much smaller than the objective pattern so it is not seen in the image )
On the understanding that Haig wanted a more ambitious version, Gough held meetings with his Corps commanders on 6 and 16 June where the third objective, which included the German Wilhelm ( third ) Line, was added to the first and second objectives due to be taken on the first day.
On a second plane, supporters maintain that the attention paid by mothers of contemporary primitive tribes to their children, such as sucking, fondling, and masturbating, is sexual according to an objective standard ; and that this sexual attention is inordinate.
In 1974, IBM started a project with a design objective of creating a large telephone-switching network with a potential capacity to deal with at least 300 calls per second.
The military objective, where it exists, seems to take a completely second place.
Shortly after 7: 00 am, the 1st Canadian Division captured the left half of its second objective, the Red Line, and moved the 1st Canadian Brigade forward to mount an attack on the remainder.
A second common form of cooperative federation is a cooperative union, whose objective ( according to Gide ) is “ to develop the spirit of solidarity among societies and ... in a word, to exercise the functions of a government whose authority, it is needless to say, is purely moral .” Co-operatives UK and the International Cooperative Alliance are examples of such arrangements.
The second objective was that the C shell should be better for interactive use.
of two lenses: the objective lens which creates an image at infinity, and a second weak tube lens which then forms a real image in its focal plane.
Yeovil's Liberal candidate had been placed second in February 1974 and third in the October 1974 general election, and Ashdown's objective was to " squeeze " the local Labour vote to enable him to defeat the Conservatives, who had held the seat since its creation in 1918.
The first report identified 2, 363 stations and of railway line for closure, representing 55 % of all stations and 30 % of route miles, with an objective of stemming the large financial losses being incurred during a period of increasing competition from road transport ; the second identified a small number of major routes within the remaining network for significant investment.
The first attempt at sophistication was the " lifting barrage " where the first objective of an attack was intensely bombarded for a period before the entire barrage " lifted " to fall on a second objective farther back.
Biblical scholar Thomas L. Thompson notes that the methods of " biblical archaeology " have also become outmoded: " and Albright's historical interpretation can make no claim to be objective, proceeding as it does from a methodology which distorts its data by selectivity which is hardly representative, which ignores the enormous lack of data for the history of the early second millennium, and which wilfully establishes hypotheses on the basis of unexamined biblical texts, to be proven by such ( for this period ) meaningless mathematical criteria as the ' balance of probability ' ..."
The second involved the photographic coverage objective.
' Being a climber first and a collector second, I felt strongly that Carstensz Pyramid, the highest mountain in Australasia ... was a true mountaineer ’ s objective.
First, it must be " an objective related to concerns which are pressing and substantial in a free and democratic society ", and second it must be shown " that the means chosen are reasonable and demonstrably justified ".

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