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    Six Moon Phases

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    Six moon phases New moon: On the day of the new moon the moon rises when the sun rises and sets when the sun sets. A day or two later the moon reappear in the west after sunset. The first phase in the lunar cycle in the new moon. New moon workings can be done from the first day of the new moon to three and a half days later. New moon magick is good for beauty,health,self-empowerment,farms and gardens,job hunting,love,purity,and romance,networking,protection and creates a shield for the beginning

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    object such as a moon or a planet moves into the shadow of another celestial body and there are two types of the eclipse on Earth named solar eclipse and lunar eclipse. A solar eclipse happens when the moon's shadow falls somewhere on the surface of the earth and a lunar eclipse is the opposite of solar eclipse which happens when the earth's shadow falls on the moon. There are two sections of the shadow, the dark umbra, and the partially shaded penumbra, their placement determines the type of eclipse that

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    The "Moon Hoax" has been around since 1835, when the New York Sun printed an article about this whole ordeal. The New York Sun used and credited Sir John Herschel, who was a British Astronomer. Herschel claimed that he had tried out a new type of telescope on the Cape of Good Hope in January of 1834. While in Cape Town, he said he'd set up an Observatory. Using this, he claimed to have observed what he thought of as the "Real" Moon. He claimed to have seen vegetation, bodies of water, and living

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    The moon is a giant ball of rock in our sky. The moon came to be where it is now when a giant, mars sized “proto plantet” as such, smashed into earth sending tons of molten rock flying into space and slowly the moon began to form from that rock. The moon affects our planet in many ways. It affects the oceans tides by pulling water toward where ever it is. Also it has an effect on how long each day is because it slows down the earths spinning by orbiting in the opposite direction. If the moon moon

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    Starry Night

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    Starry Night is a beautiful painting, representational in the type of art. The size of the painting is 29 in. by 36 ¼ in., and oil on canvas were the materials used. Van Gogh is using an expressive quality and an emotionalism viewpoint. On the left side of the painting, there is a group of black lines that curve in waves upward, coming to a point. To the lower right, there is a small town that leads up to hills and then mountains. The painting is set at night, and the sky is a wondrous swirl of bursting

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    The Moon Jacob Hogue SCIN 111-12F Ivy Tech Community College The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. Its orbit is 384,400 km from Earth, the diameter is 3476 km and the mass is 7.35e22 kg. The moon is also Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies. The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun. As the Moon orbits around the Earth once per month, the angle

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    planet from the Sun. It is unique because it shows at both morning rise and evening set of the sun. It is rocky, heavily cratered, covered in boulders, and also pulverized dust. The majority of it's surface bears a strong resemblance to that of Earth's moon. It's lack of atmosphere causes wild temperature fluctuations. Temperatures can range from 90 kelvin to 700 kelvin thus creating a planet, from all observations, that cannot sustain life--it is geologically dead. Mercury also has a magnetic field generated

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    Lcross Essay

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    been detected at the polar regions of the Earth’s moon. The underlying mission, however, was to investigate the mere presence of ice in a shadowed crater near a polar region of the moon. It was eventually confirmed within Cabeus, a southern lunar crater, that water does exist on the Moon’s surface. LCROSS wasn’t launched alone as it was accompanied with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in June 2009. This was the first American mission to the Moon in over a decade. Simply put, LCROSS and LRO are

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    “The Glass Menagerie,” by Tennessee Williams, is a memory play designed to reveal some type of truth by examining the life of a family living in St. Louis. However, what exactly the play is trying to reveal remains unclear even as the play draws to a close. The play ends on a slightly confusing note, with Tom, the narrator, saying “for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura - and so goodbye....” (Williams 97) and then Laura blowing out her candles. However, upon closer

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    For the last forty years people have been arguing whether if the Moon landings were real. The Moon landings occurred during the late 1960’s and into the early 1970’s. During this time the United States and the Soviet Union were in a competition known as the Space Race. The main objective during the Space Race was for one country to put a man on the Moon. The competition was getting intense, and both countries began expanding their space programs. During the Space Race and the Apollo missions NASA

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