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The Mongolian Lunar New Year, commonly known as Tsagaan Sar (Mongolian: Цагаан сар ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷᠠ, pronounced [t͡sʰɐˈʁaːɴ sɐr] or literally White Moon), [note 1] is the first day of the year according to the Mongolian lunisolar calendar. The festival of the Lunar New Year is celebrated by Mongolic and some Turkic ...
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite, orbiting at an average distance of 384 399 km (238,854 mi; about 30 times Earth's diameter). It faces Earth always with the same side. This is a result of Earth's gravitational pull having synchronized the Moon's rotation period with its orbital period (lunar month) of 29.5 Earth days.
The Moon is just large enough to cover the Sun completely (at times) so that a temporary night falls and the stars spring out. [...] The Sun's greater distance makes up for its greater size and the result is that the Moon and the Sun appear to be equal in size. [...] There is no astronomical reason why Moon and Sun should fit so well.
[137] [138] The last attempt to define acceptable detailed rules for exploitation, ended in June 2018, after S. Neil Hosenball, who was the NASA General Counsel and chief US negotiator for the Moon Treaty, decided that negotiation of the mining rules in the Moon Treaty should be delayed until the feasibility of exploitation of lunar resources ...
This week, learn why a lunar time scale is needed before humans return to the moon, meet the faces of Scotland’s ancient past, spy “salty licorice” cats, and more.
Moon dust-contaminated items finally became available to the public in 2014, when the US government approved [35] the sale of private material owned, and collected, by astronauts. Since then, only one item has been produced for sale with genuine Moon dust collected after spending over 32 hours on the Moon.
Did you ever wonder why the full moon seems so big and bright in the winter? Because the Earth’s axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees to its orbit around the sun, the sun appears at different ...
This is why I followed the path to be able to sail in these areas.” His first experience of the area was doing a “race around the world” in a sailboat as a youngster, heading south from his ...