Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Boots on the Moon. It soon became clear, however, that at least one first-nighter found Voznesensky's revue an ideological bust. After only two performances, the play was pulled off stage for revisions, apparently on orders from an official representing the all-powerful ideological section of the Central Committee. It is anybody's guess when Look Out for Your Faces will be performed again in Russia. Last week Moscow was buzzing with speculation on which of the show's skits, poems and songs had offended the Central Committee. Among the possibilities: > In one skit, performers hold...
...moon arrived at the closest point in its orbit at 5 a. m. this morning (223,600 miles from earth), and it will only be a few hundred miles farther away tomorrow. Thus? Saturday's eclipse will be total, not acicular...
...coincidence, the moon's diameter will appear to be the same as the sun's tomorrow, but this is not always the case. Since the moon's orbit is not circular, there are times when the satellite passes in front of the sun but is so far from the earth that the cone of the umbra falls short of the earth's surface. When this happens, the moon will appear smaller than the sun, and at mid-eclipse, the sun will form a ring around the smaller moon-an annular eclipse...
...from Wal? ?? Island. Virginia, tomorrow. The ?? ?ll be used to photograph the ?? or chromosphere as ?? ?ls into the eclipse ?? ?? of light ?? rocket's cameras ?? ?he chemical finger? ?? identify the reactions ?? that region of the sun. ?? ?mosphere is only visible for a few seconds during a total eclipse before the moon covers up the thin layer...
...plane, during the eclipse. Since the SR-71 can attain speeds of at least 2000 miles per hour-several hundred miles faster than the eclipse shadow at some points-it could prolong eclipse observation-time by an hour or more. The jet could also position itself anywhere within the moon's shadow...