moon
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Isaacman said that “all the ingredients that need to come together to put astronauts on the surface of the moon are being changed to get to the outcome.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
November's full moon is known as the Beaver Moon.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"We weren't sure if it would matter for our moon or not. When we did the simulations, we found it actually matters quite a bit."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
"But when we used the same parameters as original impact modeling - down to the equal temperature structures inside both bodies - within around five hours, an intact moon emerged."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Caesar whoops, screeching at the moon and stars.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Goth Shakira: It’s the full moon in Aquarius today, and full moons represent a culmination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
An international team led by the University of Bern has found evidence that a single asteroid collision may have dramatically reshaped Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
The search for life on Mars or on icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus may capture more attention, but another major astrobiology mystery is much closer to home.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The spacecraft will also observe Demios, the other of Mars' moons -- but without landing -- before a return capsule heads back to Earth to land in Australia in around 2031.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
She made her eyes into big, round moons.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
You wouldn't even be getting this kind of coverage if Silvio Berlusconi mooned Barack Obama in front of the UN.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013
The worst that anti-gay rights activists faced was being mooned or flipped the bird.
From Slate ● May 16, 2012
So far, she seems mild-mannered compared with McQueen, who once mooned the crowd, in lieu of a bow, at the end of his runway show.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011
Eddie mooned on down to La Ida and talked to his friend the bartender.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024
Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
To say that “a computer understands” is like saying that your car is losing its sense of humor or mooning over an old girlfriend.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2023
Anduaga’s soigné style, and vibrant yet plangent timbre, made him an uncommonly sensitive Nemorino — more of a melancholy-prone Werther scribbling poeticisms in a notebook than a sunny country bumpkin mooning over his beloved.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
“You may look and then you must go and not come back. I cannot have you in my shop every day mooning over what you have lost.”
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
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