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As for affecting the moon's orbit - the effect may be small, but all such collisions perturb the moon's orbit - albeit ever so slightly.
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As such. the moon's polar regions are of great interest right now.
Newly Recovered Image of the Moon's South Pole - NASA Watch 2009
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A space engineering firm in Texas, Stone Aerospace, has been developing long-term plans to do precisely that kind of water mining on the moon's Shackleton crater.
What's the moon made of? NASA mission finds it's nothing so simple as cheese. Marc Kaufman 2010
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The moon's south pole is located near the rim of Shackleton Crater.
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A very cool miniature diorama showed a future base at the moon's south pole that included several of these structures, as well as a super-sensitive telescope with a mirror made out of spinning liquid!
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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Just as the poles have nearby crater floors with permanently shaded regions because of the moon's orientation to the sun, they also have nearby mountains and crater rims that are in nearly perpetual sunlight.
What's the moon made of? NASA mission finds it's nothing so simple as cheese. Marc Kaufman 2010
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The information they provide is clearly nonsense, the number of possible explanations is vast, and yet, I felt a little robbed when it was announced last week that the astrological signs changed due to the moon's gravitational pull on Earth, which screwed up the alignment of the stars to the tune of about a month.
Meredith C. Carroll: As The World Turns, My Fortune Spins Meredith C. Carroll 2011
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The information they provide is clearly nonsense, the number of possible explanations is vast, and yet, I felt a little robbed when it was announced last week that the astrological signs changed due to the moon's gravitational pull on Earth, which screwed up the alignment of the stars to the tune of about a month.
Meredith C. Carroll: As The World Turns, My Fortune Spins Meredith C. Carroll 2011
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Plus, it has a cache of familiar compounds - organics such as methane and ammonia, some mercury and even traces of sulfur and and silver - that were found hidden away in the moon's deep shadows.
What's the moon made of? NASA mission finds it's nothing so simple as cheese. Marc Kaufman 2010
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A very cool miniature diorama showed a future base at the moon's south pole that included several of these structures, as well as a super-sensitive telescope with a mirror made out of spinning liquid!
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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