Given all the vitriol being spewed at Genentech over its rather lackluster quarter, you'd think Chief Executive ArtLevinsonArt Levinson saw the full moon and turned into a werewolf or something.
Given all the vitriol being spewed at Genentech over its rather lackluster quarter, you'd think Chief Executive Art Levinson saw the full moon and turned into a werewolf or something.
In 2009 NASA shot a Centaur rocket booster into the moon, kicking up 350 tons of debris that spewed up six miles high.
And there are also likely to be deposits of platinum and other valuable metals contained in asteroids that have crashed into the moon.
Mihael Kovacevic failed to deal with a Jody Morris cross, allowing Moon headed the ball into MacDonald's path and he rifled a volley past Dusan Pernis.
If a big enough one were to slam into the moon in the night sky you would think the sun was coming up early only it would be 5 to 7 times as bright.
Estimates that it could smack into the Moon caused great excitement, since previous planned impacts of rocket parts allowed Nasa to measure the shockwaves passing through the Moon and find out more about what lies beneath the surface.
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He also worked on the unmanned flights that preceded them, which confirmed a prediction that he had made from his study of lunar craters: contrary to popular belief, an astronaut landing on the moon would not sink into the dust.
J002E3, as the object was called, actually skimmed past the Moon before whizzing back out into deeper space, disappointing the scientists.
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It's hard to see any particular reason or purpose in going back to the moon or indeed sending people into space at all.
The concern is not necessarily that New Horizons, which launched in 2006, will slam into a Pluto moon that has thus far eluded detection.
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The first is at the height of our optimism and faith in technology, when mankind walked on the Moon, and we came into contact with otherworldly truths at the moment when technology then began to advance rapidly and take over our lives.
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It holds that the Moon formed from the debris kicked into orbit by the collision of a smaller proto-planet with the infant Earth.
It was a precision job, like landing on the Moon, as the team lowered into Erte Ale and recorded the first ever 3D laser scan of this remarkable volcano.
The Grail gravity mapping satellites were smashed into a mountain near the Moon's north pole in December.
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But their journey will come to an end this Monday, Dec. 17th when the two probes will be deliberately crashed into the surface of the Moon.
The other way of doing things is for the company to retrieve smaller asteroids, put them into orbit around Earth or the moon, and then dissect them at its leisure.
What's certain is that without the effort that went into getting a spacecraft to the Moon, the development of efficient, useful hydrogen fuel cells would be nowhere near as advanced as it is today.
Featuring a heartbreaking performance by Lon Chaney Jr. and groundbreaking make-up by Jack Pierce, The Wolf Man is the saga of Larry Talbot, a cursed man who transforms into a deadly werewolf when the moon is full.
But this is not some glossy site with stirring tales of derring do - it is a fascinating delve into the realities of getting to the moon.
The game begins in 1957, with the preparations to launch the first satellite into orbit, and ends with the first Moon landing.
The European Space Agency believes the vehicle's capabilities will feed into many other exploration activities, at the Moon, Mars and other Solar System destinations.
Update 19 July 2011: This story has been amended to clarify that previous references to the Moon "speeding up" actually refer to it moving into a higher orbit.
Ebb and Flow deliberately plunged into a lunar mountain in December after mapping the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.
And it was very important to him to get his movie into the theaters before we actually landed on the moon.
As usual, Hatton comes into the ring to a punk version of Blue Moon - and the London crowd are almost as receptive as Hatton's Manchester following.
Joel lay mute and still in his bath, then shivered in his Spider-Man pajamas and refused to get into bed because he had caught sight of the moon through his bedroom window.
It was still dark outside when I arrived but the sky was lit up by an incredibly large moon glowing over the ballpark -- a baseball cathedral transformed into a church thanks to a 50-by-50-foot altar in centerfield.
When Moon fancies himself a movie-style hitman, Chan slyly slips into pop video mode.
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