Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moon come to be? Prevailing wisdom has it that 4.5 billion years ago, a collision between the Earth and an object larger than Mars tossed immense quantities of vapor and debris into orbit around our planet. Eventually, the gas and rock formed a disk of dust which cooled and clumped together to form the moon. That theory received a major boost Thursday thanks to a study published in the journal Nature. Using computer simulations, University of Colorado scientists showed how a single moon can grow in this fashion. The researchers conducted 27 simulations which tracked up to 2,700 objects...
...think hurricanes and tornadoes are powerful, take a look at the sun's periodic storms. Kicking up twisting arcs of fiery gases, solar eruptions from that great thermonuclear reactor in the sky can stretch as far as the distance from Earth to the moon. The most intense outbursts explode a billion tons of material off the sun's searing (11,000[degrees]F) surface at speeds of millions of miles an hour. If these electrically charged particles happen to slam against Earth's atmosphere, they can imperil astronauts, push satellites out of orbit or fry their circuitry. If they...
...that was no small thing. Diana was someone one had to look at, and such a person comes along once in a blue moon. She had a soft heart; that was evident. She had a knack for helping people in distress. And all such qualities rose in a face that everyone was simply pleased...
...have our shared pleasures in TV--an old Home Run Derby on the Classic Sports Network with the boys, a visit to our old friends on Sesame Street with the girls. But those times in front of the tube still can't compare with a bedtime reading of Goodnight Moon or Stuart Little or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
...past four decades, a mere handful of news moments have seemed momentous enough to leave a permanent imprint on the public consciousness. President Kennedy's assassination, the moon landing and the night war broke out in the Gulf were so widely and instantly disseminated that nearly all who witnessed them can tell you where they were and what they were doing at the time. Now, it seems the death of Princess Diana has been somberly added to this sublime list of events...