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| The moon at any time after a new moon and before a full moon. |
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| The moon ant any time after full moon and before new moon. |
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| A crescent moon is a part way between a half moon and a new moon. |
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| More than half but less than full illuminated part of the moon. |
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| The phase of which the whole moon is illuminated. |
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| The phase of the moon when it is in conjunction with the sun and invisible from earth. |
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| When the moon is less than one-half illuminated byt the sun but less than one quarter illuminated. |
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| When the moon is less than one half illuminated by the sun. it occurs when the moon's illumination is disapearing. |
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| An artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication. |
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| The forces that attracts a body toward the earth's center. |
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| The lunar phase of the moon is the shape of the illuminated portion of the moon. |
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| An obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it. |
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| The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object. |
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| The partally shaded outer region of shadow cast upon the sun. |
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| the alternate rising and falling of the sea, usually twice in each lunar day at a particular place, due to the attraction of the moon and sun |
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| caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth. |
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The Lunar terminator is the division between the illuminated and dark parts of the Earth's Moon.
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The Lunar terminator is the division between the illuminated and dark parts of the Earth's Moon.
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| a tide just after a new or full moon |
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| a tide just after the first or third quarters of the moon. |
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| An eclipse in which the sun is obscured. |
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