The moons in our solar system are remarkably diverse and interesting. My google-fu is failing me, but I was hoping to get a set of models of moons to admire. Anyone making these?
posted by panaceanot
on Mar 3, 2013 -
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1) How much memory did the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) have and 2) when was the first cellphone with the same amount of memory introduced to the public? 3) Where there any other publicly available products that had the same amount of memory? 4) If so, when were they introduced to the market?
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posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Nov 30, 2012 -
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Does anyone know if the Haagen Dazs Moon Ice Cream Cakes will be coming to America this Holiday Season PLEASE and where they can be found or do I have to fly to the UK to eat this thing?
posted by J0
on Oct 28, 2012 -
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Help me find this poem that involves the moon! I can't remember it but can remember the feeling I had when reading it!
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posted by Frowner
on Oct 17, 2012 -
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Imagine that the earth is hit by another Mars-ish sized object causing a second moon to be formed. If the second moon were orbiting the Earth inside or outside of the orbit of The Moon, and assuming it was not orbiting the Earth parallel to The Moon, the two moons would have to cross each other at some point, right? A sort of moon-over-moon eclipse thing. How would you calculate how often this would occur? What would it look like? Does this happen on planets with more than one natural satellite? Does the premise of this question make no sense because my knowledge of astrophysics is basically nil? Explain to me like I am in fifth grade, please.
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posted by Lutoslawski
on May 30, 2012 -
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Is it possible for a moon to have an orbit such that it is only ever visible from its planet during daylight hours? If so, what are the necessary requirements for this to happen?
posted by curious nu
on Aug 20, 2011 -
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I'm looking for usable 3d meshes of Earth, Moon and Mars I know the data is out there for free, but the data I've found is ridiculous (4 terabyte high resolution files), hard to use (5 degree slices that would need to be assembled), in formats that only planetary geologists can use, or simply stuck in the labyrinth of poorly maintained and documented government web sites where I can't find it.
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posted by Ookseer
on May 8, 2011 -
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What was the size of the earth, proportionally to it today, before whatever hit it to create the moon?
posted by Sparx
on Jan 13, 2011 -
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Atari or Nintendo video game. It's driving me crazy that I can't remember the name of it.
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posted by Sassyfras
on Dec 23, 2010 -
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I will be riding a train from Chicago to Boston during the upcoming
total lunar eclipse. Am I correct that for best viewing, I should sit by the right-side window so as to see the moon in the south sky? Is the moon likely to rise so high that I won't be able to see it at all at its peak from inside a train?
posted by zadermatermorts
on Dec 17, 2010 -
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Some time in the last 8 years I read an article about children's author Margaret Wise Brown. It was a profile about her life (maybe in the context of a book review?), and it was about how depressed she was. I seem to remember her being in an abusive or controlling relationship with an older man or an older woman. It could have been in the New York Times, the New Yorker, or some other major publication. I've tried searching on the newyorker.com and nytimes.com, but didn't find what I wanted (but perhaps I wasn't searching the right way). Can you help me find this article? At least a citation if it's not online?
posted by bluefly
on Oct 7, 2010 -
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Astronomers: how to best determine the exact time to take a photograph of the full moon where the moon is situated between two earthly objects?
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posted by komara
on Jul 20, 2010 -
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Help me understand the phases of the moon. Why is it that a New Moon is visible at all?
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posted by doubtless
on May 22, 2010 -
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I've always wondered about the lyrics to the Dead Kennedys' song "Moon Over Marin". It seems like one would have had to have lived in California in the late 70s-early 80s to get all the references in the song, so I'm hoping someone who did can explain them.
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posted by DecemberBoy
on Mar 29, 2010 -
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Back about a decade ago, I happened to be watching in early evening as the moon went from thin sliver to complete disappearance. It was one of those unexpected and somewhat wondrous moments of my life (due to many circumstances of the time, and the unplanned coolness of it). I'd like to see it again. Is there some schedule for me to tell when this is going to happen again visible from my area?
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posted by Kickstart70
on Oct 23, 2009 -
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What terrestrial technologies did the Apollo program, in particular the manned missions to the Moon, yield?
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posted by tip120
on Jul 20, 2009 -
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With the advent of NASA's return to the moon I have a question of whether or not The Apollo astronauts could have recovered from a less than perfect landing.
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posted by Gungho
on Jun 18, 2009 -
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I copied a short javascript to display the moonphase from a
webpage, and made a few minor tweaks, and it appears to have a few problems. For instance, the moon phase occasionally shows up as "undefined"; I don't know enough about javascript to fix it, please help.
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posted by timepiece
on Jan 28, 2009 -
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What would be the conditions required on the moon of a gas giant to support Earth life?
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posted by Electrius
on Jan 12, 2009 -
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How can I find out when this particular crater on the moon was named?
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posted by np312
on Nov 20, 2008 -
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Can you help me locate a series of photos of an imagined trip to Mars (or maybe a return to the Moon?) done in papercraft, that was in one of my grade school textbooks around 1979?
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posted by chr1sb0y
on Sep 18, 2008 -
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How can I give my girlfriend an engagement ring with a stone made of moon rock?
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posted by ben242
on Jan 23, 2008 -
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We had a full moon a few days back, and it seemed - to me - to be floating very much higher in the sky than a full moon I watched last summer, which I think was at a much lower angle. But if the moon rotates around the equator, then wouldn't it always be the same height in the sky, for any particular position on earth?
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posted by woodblock100
on Nov 27, 2007 -
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If I looked up at the sky some time at night, pointed to the moon and gave you the exact orientation of my arm (the two angles in the north/south and east/west directions) and told you the exact time of night and date it was, would you be able to tell my exact location in the world? If so, how?
posted by DirtyCreature
on May 30, 2007 -
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Where should I go (near Los Angeles) and what should I do, to make a nice photograph of the full moon when it rises on Saturday, March 3rd? I'm thinking someplace in the desert, but I'm open to driving a bit of a ways.
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posted by willnot
on Feb 22, 2007 -
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Does anyone know what
this phenomenon is called? It's not what I'd consider to be a moon dog or halo, but it sure was striking.
posted by pjern
on Dec 8, 2006 -
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Is there a way I can figure out the moon's path across the night sky as viewed from a specific location on Earth on a given day?
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posted by yellowlightman
on Oct 31, 2006 -
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Hypothetical from Moon-orbit to Earth-orbit question. I already know about free return trajectories, but what if something went wrong and your ship (currently orbiting the moon) didn't leave lunar orbit at the point it was supposed to? What might happen?
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posted by np312
on Aug 17, 2006 -
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I am looking for clear vinyl sleeves for trading cards that have the dimensions 120 mm x 70 mm (4.72" by 2.7559" inches). Ideally the sleeves would fit the cards fairly snugly.
It's an odd size, and I don't believe that any generic card sleeves will work. Thanks for any suggestions. They are for a game called "Blue Moon" by Reiner Knizia.
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posted by craniac
on May 9, 2006 -
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I have come across this
clothes brand logo (simplified imitation drawn from memory in Paint using a laptop mousepad), depicting what I believe is a star, a half moon and a spiral, in that order.
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posted by gentle
on Mar 6, 2006 -
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A few years ago I read an online article that explained that the common belief that the moon appears larger at the horizon because the Earth's atmosphere acts as a magnifying lens is wrong, and that this effect is due to an optical illusion caused by moon's visual proximity to much closer objects on the horizon. However...
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posted by planetthoughtful
on Jan 31, 2006 -
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