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Article: Following the moon Gardeners used to look skyward before ...
Concord Monitor;  December 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... grass moon. November - Beaver moon or frost moon. December - Cold moon or long nights moon. Each season usually has three full moons, but every two to three years an extra full moon occurs in a season and is referred to as the blue moon. This gave ...

Article: Moon
World of Earth Science;      700+ words ...Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite . Reflecting light from the Sun , the Moon is often the brightest object in the night sky. The Moon orbits Earth at an average distance of approximately 240,000 miles (385,000 km). With revolution ...

Article: Moon mysteries: Our solitary satellite has already told us ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  June 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 24.) We see phases of the moon because sometimes the sunlit side is facing us (a full moon), sometimes only part of the ... us is lit (gibbous and half moons), and sometimes the side facing ... almost no light at all (new moon). (See diagram on facing ...

Article: THIS FULL MOON IS WOLF MOON, SNOW MOON, ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  February 1, 1988 ;     662 words ... ... justifying that name for the moon, given by the Chippewas ... sustenance. The full moon of February sheds light ... than the frost cloud of a man's breath," observed ... Borland in his book "Twelve Moons of the Year." "It burned ... knew the February full moon as the Hunger Moon ...

Article: MOON
Young Students Learning Library;      700+ words ... ... ideas) about the origin of the moon. The most widely held theory is that the moon was formed from the same nebula ... the other planets and their moons. As the gas cloud grew smaller ... scientists believe that the moon once had its own orbit around ...

Article: Making MOONS
Ask;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...When you think of moons, you probably picture ... familiar silver-gray moon we see in our own ... two of Saturn's moons, Telesto and Calypso ... knocked off another moon, Tethys. Telesto ... The craters on the moon are very old. They ... when the planets and moons were forming and cooling ...

Encyclopedia entry: moon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...moon natural satellite of a planet (see satellite, natural ) or dwarf planet, in particular, the single natural satellite of the earth . The Earth-Moon System The moon is the earth's nearest neighbor in space. In addition to its proximity ...