Although small moon rocks (roughly 1 gram each) were presented to U.S. governors and some heads of state following the manned moon landings, they remain the property of the state or country, not the individual who received them.
This year's show in the sky may not produce as many highlights for some viewers because of light from the moon, NASA said in a statement.
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Some say all amavasyas - or new moon nights - are auspicious for bathing in the Ganges, but Mauni (silent) Amavasya is also special as many pilgrims do not speak until they have had their bath.
And you can hear some of their songs on the Square the Moon website.
These maps will help to address some other long-standing questions about the moon.
Landrieu becomes the first white mayor to govern the majority-African-American city in some 30 years. (His father, Moon Landrieu, was the last white mayor.) And he does it after winning all but one precinct in the primary election.
Mr. Moon, who has sold his prototypes to some of the world's leading board game companies, is happy with the iPad version of his game.
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If kept up, this would eventually result in the Earth looking like the surface of the Moon, as it is already doing in some places.
You might have seen some of his popular jewelry designs -- the quarter moon, the elaborate scenes on the flip side of belt buckles, the curling alligator.
But even when these mis-observations are discounted, enough so-called lunar transients, seen by enough reputable observers, remain to make some astronomical heretics wonder if there is life in the old moon yet.
The movie then jumps ahead to 2089, when two archeologists, Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her boyfriend, Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), discover some cave paintings with figures pointing to a planet or a moon.
The startup hopes to sell round-trip moon expeditions to foreign countries, research organizations and even some wealthy individuals.
Some, like 1985's Centerfield and 1997's Blue Moon Swamp, were more successful than others, but most have been characterized by an almost violent resistance against his past.
In the A plot, the nine-year-old half brothers Phineas and Ferb fill a summer day with some insanely ambitious project: making a building as high as the moon, a time machine, a roller-coaster.
We should do it because in a nation where we split the atom, sent a man to the moon, mapped the human genome, where we have some of the most promising treatments and cures available, hard working people should get the care they need when they're sick.
Some have even suggested the loose rock regolith on the surface of the moon or Mars as a growing medium, although additional minerals would need to be brought from Earth.
And long-term human settlement will follow at some point, mainly to develop mineral and energy resources available on the Moon, but also to emplace protective systems aimed at avoiding large asteroid impacts of the type we were all recently made aware with that grazing meteor strike in Chelyabinsk and the simultaneous near-miss by big-rock DA14.
Some make it to the surface the signs are all over the Planet and moon from the ones that have.
Speaking earlier at the summit, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said he believed an agreement was in sight, with recent moves by some countries a positive step to cutting emissions.
Some commentators think the panel will go as far as reaffirming the concept of returning to the moon when it completes its whirlwind review this August.
The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news for planetary science, but it's also likely causing some anxiety for the team in charge of New Horizons, a spacecraft set to be the first probe ever to visit the dwarf planet.
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Some ridiculed this journey to outer space in the same way as the idea that people could walk on the moon was once scorned.
Some would say a mosquito is worth one hundred trillion dollars (and if you were marooned alone on the moon, and suddenly a mosquito appeared, I believe that little guy would be worth all the galaxies in the universe, in terms of biological companionship).
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