Cassini's Laws — provide a compact description of the motion of the Moon. They were established in 1693 by Giovanni Domenico Cassini, a prominent scientist of his time.For the original statement of the laws, see cite book |title=Essays on the Motion of Celestial… … Wikipedia
Giovanni Domenico Cassini — Infobox Scientist name = Giovanni Domenico Cassini |300px image width = 260px caption = Giovanni Domenico Cassini birth date = birth date|1625|06|08|mf=y birth place = Perinaldo, Republic of Genoa death date = death date and… … Wikipedia
moon — mooner, n. moonless, adj. /moohn/, n. 1. the earth s natural satellite, orbiting the earth at a mean distance of 238,857 miles (384,393 km) and having a diameter of 2160 miles (3476 km). 2. this body during a particular lunar month, or during a… … Universalium
Moon — /moohn/, n. Sun Myung /sun myung/, born 1920, Korean religious leader: founder of the Unification Church. * * * Sole natural satellite of Earth, which it orbits from west to east at a mean distance of about 238,900 mi (384,400 km). It is less… … Universalium
Orbit of the Moon — Not to be confused with Lunar orbit in the sense of a selenocentric orbit, that is, an orbit around the Moon The Moon completes its orbit around the Earth in approximately 27.3 days (a sidereal month). The Earth and Moon orbit about their… … Wikipedia
Moon — This article is about Earth s Moon. For moons in general, see Natural satellite. For other uses, see Moon (disambiguation) … Wikipedia
Белецкий, Владимир Васильевич — Владимир Васильевич Белецкий … Википедия
Владимир Васильевич Белецкий — Дата рождения: 2 мая 1930 Место рождения: Иркутск, РСФСР, СССР Гражданство … Википедия
Dates of 2004 — ▪ 2005 January It turns out we were all wrong, probably, in my judgment. David Kay, former U.S. chief weapons inspector in Iraq, in testimony to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, January 28 January 1 Haitian Pres. Jean… … Universalium
Introduction to general relativity — General relativity (GR) is a theory of gravitation that was developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915. According to general relativity, the observed gravitational attraction between masses results from the warping of space and time by… … Wikipedia