moon
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Hayley Metcalfe, 37, from Runcorn in Cheshire, said she and her husband Mike were "over the moon" to find out she was pregnant with her second son in 2023.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The upper stage of another Falcon 9 recently crashed into the moon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
The agendas also contained a distorted periodic table, unreadable phases of the moon and other garbled educational material that parents suspect may have been created using artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
So if you were to call the Omega Speedmaster Reduced the first watch to go to the moon, they’d be the first to tell you that you’re wrong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
I imagined we were out to gather stones for his wall, that the sliver of moon was a bit of the sun, and I started to run.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
One theory for the origin of the Martian moons -- the "giant impact" hypothesis -- is that they formed after a celestial body collided with Mars.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The spacecraft will also observe Demios, the other of Mars' moons -- but without landing -- before a return capsule heads back to Earth to land in Australia in around 2031.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
In 1989, Voyager 2 discovered six previously unknown moons around Neptune.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Either scenario would require the material now visible on the moons to have originated far below the surface of a much larger body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
The moons were named by him the ‘Medician stars’, in honour of Cosimo, but are known to astronomers today as the Galilean satellites of Jupiter.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Perkins: What’s so great about this is seeing someone who looks like Lakeith being mooned after.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2019
She and Tom Arnold had mooned the crowd at a World Series game to show off their matching tattoos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2018
Buffy The Vampire Slayer and its spin-off, Angel, were cult classics, the just-home-from-school fantasy shows that made vampires sexy long before R-Patz and Kristen mooned at each other in Twilight.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2013
So far, she seems mild-mannered compared with McQueen, who once mooned the crowd, in lieu of a bow, at the end of his runway show.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2011
Mate mooned over one in red patent leather with a snap in the shape of a heart.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Bogotá’s unorthodox mayor, Antanas Mockus—who rose to fame after mooning student protesters and deployed mimes to control traffic—viewed the activity as a gambit “to achieve self-regulation in the behavior among citizens.”
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024
Would there be a ShyBelligerent if he still were mooning around Compton?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
Footage captured the moment a terminally ill man was arrested by police officers after "mooning" at speed camera van.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021
We have Richard Dalloway, mooning over the Clarissa he won but who evades him still, after many years of marriage.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
The cow retreated a few steps and regarded him with watery, mooning eyes that indicated a massively substandard intelligence.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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