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Does the Force Felt by a Person on the Surface of the Earth Vary with Lunar Phase?

If you ignore the small variations in the Moon’s orbit (which amount to about 10% of the distance to…

Sky and Telescope provides an online interactive sky chart that I think can provide the information you are looking…

I believe that this question has been answered on the Space Exploration Stack Exchange. You can use an online…

Since moons are visible by the light they reflect from the star that their parent planet orbits, the eclipse…

When a calendar lists a full moon as occurring on a specific date, it actually means that it happens…

Unfortunately, there are two commonly used definitions for a “Blue Moon”. Since a year has 12 months, and the…

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