The Sun’s 1/c order gravitational gradient accelerations of Earth and Moon, dependent on the motions of the latter bodies, act upon the system’s internal angular momentum. Not only does this gravitational spin-orbit force (which plays an important part in calculating gravity wave signal templates from astrophysical sources) slightly accelerate the Earth-Moon system as a whole, it more robustly ...

This contribution reviews some of the recent advancements in the field of lunar science based upon remote sensing results from a number of spacecraft missions to the Moon and laboratorybased analysis of lunar samples. Perhaps, one of the most exciting recent discoveries in lunar science has been the detection of water on the lunar surface and in the lunar samples. These new findings have signif...

Isotopic analyses of the oxygen and the refractory elements chromium, tungsten, and titanium show that Earth and Moon have the same isotopic compositions for these elements. In contrast, Randal Paniello and Frédéric Moynier (Washington University in St. Louis) and James Day (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla) report from highprecision analyses of the isotopes of the volatile element...

We associate with a moon polyominoes a charge function C :M→ {±1} such that every cell of the polyomino is either positive or negative. The charge function induces naturally a sign on the northeast and southeast chains of length 2 in 01-fillings of the moon polyomino. We prove that the joint distribution of the numbers of positive chains and negative chains is symmetric and independent of the c...

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the gravitation of the Moon on the frequency of births in Kyoto, Japan. A retrospective cohort analysis of 1007 consecutive births without the use of the induction agents was conducted on a population of births in a private midwife hospital from January, 1966 to December, 2000. There was a significant increase in the cases of births, whe...

Moon Mineralogy Mapper/Chandrayaan-1. Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M) is one of eleven instruments selected to fly onboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in 2008. M, selected as a NASA Discovery Mission of Opportunity in May, 2004, is a high spatial and spectral resolution spectrometer that will help scientists better understand the compositional variation of the Moon’s surface. Ms overall science...

Myth is an empirical response to the lives of ancient ancestors. "Chang'e Runs Moon" records story people flying last month, but it cannot explain relationship between this and life experience In pre Qin literature, author first deduced that age Chang'e's birth development was in late Neolithic period, then used "totem theory" demonstrate Houyi Chang'e were originally belonging different totem ...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether dog bites requiring hospital admission occur more at the full moon. DESIGN Review of dates of admission for dog bites to accident and emergency departments, June 1997 to June 1998, compared with dates of the full moon. SETTING All public hospitals in Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Admissions for dog bites. RESULTS 12 peak clusters of admissions were unrelat...

Professor Geoffrey Chamberlain, FRCOG, is chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George's Hospital Medical School, London. Enzyme linked immunosorbant assays (ELISAs) are the bases of many of the commercial kits currently available in chemist shops. The assay depends on the double reaction of standard phase antibody with enzyme labelled antibody, which is sensitive and s...