Those viewing outside the favoured zone were treated to a partial eclipse, in which the Moon just took a bite out of the side of the Sun's disc.
Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.
Although the moon's topography has already been comprehensively charted, these other kinds of map exist only for a narrow belt around the equator, amounting to just a quarter of the moon's surface.
P5 brings Pluto's known satellite tally to five, and it comes just a year after Hubble spotted moon number four, the similarly diminutive P4.
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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that just finished a little while ago.
On Wednesday, researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope announced the detection of P5, a tiny moon measuring just 6 to 15 miles (10 to 24 kilometers) across.
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Outside Windhoek, Namibia--just after sunset, the full moon rises through a half-dozen bands of purple and magenta.
Scientists will then be able to use those measurements to produce a gravitational map of the Moon, just like GRACE did for the Earth.
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That would give it a resolution of a few thousandths of an arc-second enough, were this an optical rather than a radio telescope, to see a boulder just a few metres across on the surface of the moon.
It would be more significant to have a base on the Moon, rather than just going back.
But more than just a scientific curiosity, the asteroid resources deposited on the Moon over the past 4 billion years represent an opportunity to harvest those resources in the construction of lunar bases for the benefit and protection of Earth.
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He sat out in the courtyard, burping and smoking a cigarette, looking up at the crescent moon just visible on the horizon.
But with "Tiny Cities, " Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon makes an argument not just for his own abilities as a song interpreter but for the underappreciated songwriting skill of Isaac Brock.
The Earth is just too unusual a place, they insisted, with its stable orbit, nearby moon, watery surface, plate tectonics and unique position in the galaxy.
Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. secretary-general who was born just a few miles away, is honored with two sculptures.
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In this world where every object was thrown away at the slightest sign of breakage or aging, at the first dent or stain, and replaced with a new and perfect substitute, there was just one false note, one shadow: the moon.
The ruling presented a striking contrast to a decision on the same issue by another Virginia federal district judge, Norman Moon, just two weeks ago.
And there's also a really great documentary called "In the Shadow of the Moon, " which is really heroic, just about the moon mission.
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