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...de the Moon an important [[cultural]] [[influence]] on [[language]], the [[calendar]], [[art]] and [[mythology]]. The Moon's [[gravitational]] [[influence]] pr ...the first being Apollo 11 in 1969. These missions returned over 380 kg of lunar rocks, which have been used to [[develop]] a detailed [[geological]] [[unde

...number 60. 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour - and possibly a calendar with 360 (60x6) days in a year (with a few more days added on). ...he [[Lunar calendar]] and the [[Solar calendar]], although the [[Gregorian calendar]] is the most commonly used.

Metonic or lunar cycle: a cycle of 19 years, established by the Greek astronomer Meton, and ...8 years, at the end of which the days of the week (according to the Julian Calendar) recur on the same days of the month.

...] reproduction of much. How many days in a week, how many weeks in a year. Lunar months, hours, minutes, seconds. And all this was built as a [[physical]] [ " It was like a calendar, a spiral carved into a rock…

...astrometry, celestial navigation, observational astronomy, the making of [[calendar]]s, and even astrolog], but professional astronomy is nowadays often consid ...ed as early as 1000 BC by the Chinese. The [[Chaldeans]] discovered that [[lunar eclipses]] recurred in a repeating cycle known as a [https://sunearth.gsfc.

...am drawn on its future site. This diagram incorporates the directions, the lunar mansions, the planets, the gods, and the human body and symbolically transm ...tes]] performed there. For example, the sides of the mingtang, the Chinese calendar house, represented the seasons. Each side was further divided into three po

...uld be done except to evacuate the planet. However, in 2012 of the Urantia calendar, it was discovered that Urantia had to be removed for other reasons, but th close as twenty of our feet) and they have the ability to photograph lunar or planetary objects with great skill.