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Every planet, asteroid, moon, mountain and crater has its name.
ECONOMIST: Time to start giving extrasolar planets proper names
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One of the most visible belonged to the late songstress Kate Smith ("When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain"), whose 1930s and '40s radio show helped--along with the 1932 Winter Olympics--put Lake Placid on the map.
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The Grail gravity mapping satellites were smashed into a mountain near the Moon's north pole in December.
BBC: Nasa reveals new information about moon probes crash sites
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Ebb and Flow deliberately plunged into a lunar mountain in December after mapping the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.
NPR: NASA Moon Craft Spots Ebb And Flow Crash Sites
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The lander Moon Express showed off Thursday is powered by compressed oxygen, for now, as Moon Express employees test it at a NASA facility in Mountain View, California.
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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.
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The refueling happened in tiny mountain towns that looked like the surface of the moon.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.
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