Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ordinarily, a body the size of Io should have cooled off long ago, making volcanoes impossible. But for every pass the moon makes around Jupiter, it makes several passes by its large, slower-orbiting sister moons: Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Every time Io does that, the gravitational tug of these nearby satellites gives it a twang. On Earth, the gravity of just one moon is sufficient to cause the oceans to rise and fall in great crashing tides. On Io, the gravitational influence of three nearby moons is enough to distort the shape of the world itself, causing...
...above the surrounding ice. Since only 10% of an iceberg shows above the water, that means these measure a mile or so from top to bottom--and so, therefore, does the planet-wide ice crust from which they came. On the scale of a 2,000-mile-wide moon, that's not much of a crust...
...many candidates have come across as petit-politicians rather than students in favor of honest change. As a political outsider, I do not want to hear about political liasons and campaign finance problems in my student government, nor do I want candidates to run on platforms that promise the moon. Candidates should have a sense of humility about what they are doing and a realistic sense of the council's capabilities...
...invited by the Asian-American Association to read from and discuss her most recent book, Among the the White Moon Faces, a memoir about her life in the United States...
...just fell out of the sky" in Long Beach, California; a farmer who threw machinery and dead cows into a hole on his property and claimed that they "never hit bottom"; and an interview with Richard Hoagland, who claims the government is suppressing news of alien structures on the Moon and Mars...