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Index Transient lunar phenomenon

A transient lunar phenomenon (TLP) or lunar transient phenomenon (LTP) is a short-lived change in light, color or appearance on the surface of the Moon.[1]

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  1. 136 relations: Agrippa (crater), Albedo, Alpetragius (crater), Alpha particle, Alphonsus (crater), Anti-aircraft warfare, Apollo 11, Apollo 17, Aristarchus (crater), Arthur Stanley Williams, Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, Astronomical seeing, Aurora, Axel Firsoff, Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, Bochum, Bonnie Buratti, British Astronomical Association, Canterbury, Carlini (crater), Casimir Marie Gaudibert, Cassini (lunar crater), Cichus (crater), Clementine (spacecraft), Decay product, Dispersion (optics), Edward Emerson Barnard, Eimmart (crater), Electromagnetism, Electrostatics, Eratosthenes (crater), Fracastorius (crater), Friedrich Simon Archenhold, Furnerius (crater), Gassendi (crater), Gauss (crater), Geology of the Moon, George III, Giordano Bruno (crater), Godin (crater), Grimaldi (crater), Hansteen (crater), Harrison Schmitt, Helmholtz (lunar crater), Hercules (crater), Hermann Joseph Klein, Herodotus (crater), Hugh Percy Wilkins, Hypothesis, Impact crater, ... Expand index (86 more) »

  2. Lunar observation
  3. Unexplained phenomena
  4. Unsolved problems in astronomy

Agrippa (crater)

Agrippa is a lunar impact crater that is located at the southeast edge of the Mare Vaporum.

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Albedo

Albedo is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body.

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Alpetragius (crater)

Alpetragius is a lunar impact crater located on the eastern edge of Mare Nubium, to the southwest of the much larger crater Alphonsus.

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Alpha particle

Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus.

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Alphonsus (crater)

Alphonsus is an ancient impact crater on the Moon that dates from the pre-Nectarian era.

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Anti-aircraft warfare

Anti-aircraft warfare is the counter to aerial warfare and it includes "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action" (NATO's definition).

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Apollo 11

Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.

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Apollo 17

Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit.

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Aristarchus (crater)

Aristarchus is a lunar impact crater that lies in the northwest part of the Moon's near side.

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Arthur Stanley Williams

Arthur Stanley Williams (1861 in Brighton – 21 November 1938) was an English solicitor and amateur astronomer.

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Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers

The Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO or A.L.P.O.) is an international scientific and educational organization established in March 1947 in the United States by Walter H. Haas, and later incorporated in 1990.

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Astronomical seeing

In astronomy, seeing is the degradation of the image of an astronomical object due to turbulence in the atmosphere of Earth that may become visible as blurring, twinkling or variable distortion. Transient lunar phenomenon and astronomical seeing are astronomical imaging, lunar observation and Observational astronomy.

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Aurora

An aurora (aurorae or auroras), also commonly known as the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic and Antarctic).

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Axel Firsoff

Valdemar Axel Firsoff FRAS was known principally as an amateur astronomer.

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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (December 26, 1827 – April 22, 1895) was a French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist.

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Bochum

Bochum (also,; Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Bonnie Buratti

Bonnie J. Buratti (born 1952) is an American planetary scientist in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she leads the Comets, Asteroids, and Satellites Group.

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British Astronomical Association

The British Astronomical Association (BAA) was formed in 1890 as a national body to support the UK's amateur astronomers.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the county of Kent, England; it was a county borough until 1974.

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Carlini (crater)

Carlini is a small lunar impact crater located in the Mare Imbrium.

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Casimir Marie Gaudibert

Casimir Marie Gaudibert (4 March 1823 – 9 June 1901) was a French amateur astronomer and selenographer.

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Cassini (lunar crater)

Cassini is a lunar impact crater that is located in the Palus Nebularum, at the eastern end of Mare Imbrium.

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Cichus (crater)

Cichus is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southwestern part of the Moon, at the eastern edge of Palus Epidemiarum.

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Clementine (spacecraft)

Clementine (officially called the Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE)) was a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (previously the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization) and NASA, launched on January 25, 1994.

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Decay product

In nuclear physics, a decay product (also known as a daughter product, daughter isotope, radio-daughter, or daughter nuclide) is the remaining nuclide left over from radioactive decay.

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Dispersion (optics)

In optics and in wave propagation in general, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency; sometimes the term chromatic dispersion is used for specificity to optics in particular.

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Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 – February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer.

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Eimmart (crater)

Eimmart is a lunar impact crater that is located near the east-northeastern limb of the Moon, to the northeast of the Mare Crisium.

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Electromagnetism

In physics, electromagnetism is an interaction that occurs between particles with electric charge via electromagnetic fields.

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Electrostatics

Electrostatics is a branch of physics that studies slow-moving or stationary electric charges.

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Eratosthenes (crater)

Eratosthenes crater is a relatively deep lunar impact crater that lies on the boundary between the Mare Imbrium and Sinus Aestuum mare regions.

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Fracastorius (crater)

Fracastorius is the lava-flooded remnant of an ancient lunar impact crater located at the southern edge of Mare Nectaris.

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Friedrich Simon Archenhold

Friedrich Simon Archenhold (2 October 1861 in Lichtenau, Kingdom of Prussia – 14 October 1939 in Berlin) was an astronomer who founded the Treptow Observatory (today the Archenhold Observatory) in Berlin-Treptow.

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Furnerius (crater)

Furnerius is a large lunar impact crater located in the southeast part of the Moon, in the area close to the southeastern limb of the nearside or visible Moon.

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Gassendi (crater)

Gassendi is a large lunar impact crater feature located at the northern edge of Mare Humorum.

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Gauss (crater)

Gauss is a large lunar impact crater, named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, that is located near the northeastern limb of the Moon's near side.

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Geology of the Moon

The geology of the Moon (sometimes called selenology, although the latter term can refer more generally to "lunar science") is quite different from that of Earth.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Giordano Bruno (crater)

Giordano Bruno is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the northeastern limb.

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Godin (crater)

Godin is a lunar impact crater located just to the south of the crater Agrippa, on a rough upland region to the east of Sinus Medii.

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Grimaldi (crater)

Grimaldi is a large basin located near the western limb of the Moon.

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Hansteen (crater)

Hansteen is a lunar impact crater that lies near the southwest edge of the Oceanus Procellarum.

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Harrison Schmitt

Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is an American geologist, former NASA astronaut, university professor, former U.S. senator from New Mexico, and the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.

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Helmholtz (lunar crater)

Helmholtz is a lunar impact crater, approximately 110 kilometers in diameter, that is located near the south-southeast limb of the Moon.

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Hercules (crater)

Hercules is a prominent crater located in the northeast part of the Moon, to the west of the crater Atlas.

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Hermann Joseph Klein

Hermann Joseph Klein (14 September 1844 – 1 July 1914) was a German astronomer, author and professor.

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Herodotus (crater)

Herodotus is a lunar impact crater located on a low shelf in the midst of the Oceanus Procellarum.

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Hugh Percy Wilkins

Hugh Percy Wilkins (4 December 1896 –23 January 1960) was a Welsh-born engineer and amateur astronomer.

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Hypothesis

A hypothesis (hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

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Impact crater

An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object.

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Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt

Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (25 October 1825 in Eutin, Germany – 7 February 1884 in Athens, Greece) was a German astronomer and geophysicist.

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Johann Heinrich von Mädler

Johann Heinrich von Mädler (29 May 1794, Berlin – 14 March 1874, Hannover) was a German astronomer.

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Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Johann Hieronymus Schröter (30 August 1745, Erfurt – 29 August 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer.

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Josep Comas i Solà

Josep Comas i Solà (Barcelona 17 December 1868 – 2 December 1937) was a Spanish astronomer, of Catalan origin, discoverer of minor planets, comets, and double stars.

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Kant (crater)

Kant is a small lunar impact crater that is located to the northwest of the prominent crater Cyrillus and the comparably sized Ibn Rushd.

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Kepler (lunar crater)

Kepler is a lunar impact crater that lies between the Oceanus Procellarum to the west and Mare Insularum in the east.

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Kirch (crater)

Kirch is a small lunar impact crater in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium, a large lunar mare in the northwest quadrant of the Moon.

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Langrenus (crater)

Langrenus is an impact crater located near the eastern lunar limb.

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LCROSS

The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA.

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Libration

In lunar astronomy, libration is the cyclic variation in the apparent position of the Moon perceived by Earth-bound observers and caused by changes between the orbital and rotational planes of the moon.

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Lichtenberg (crater)

Lichtenberg is an isolated lunar impact crater located in the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum.

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Linné (crater)

Linné is a small lunar impact crater located in the western Mare Serenitatis.

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Lowell Observatory

Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.

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Lunar geologic timescale

The lunar geological timescale (or selenological timescale) divides the history of Earth's Moon into five generally recognized periods: the Copernican, Eratosthenian, Imbrian (Late and Early epochs), Nectarian, and Pre-Nectarian.

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Lunar lava tube

Lunar lava tubes are lava tubes on the Moon formed during the eruption of basaltic lava flows.

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Lunar mare

The lunar maria (mare) are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by lava flowing into ancient impact basins.

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Lunar observation

The Moon is the largest natural satellite of and the closest major astronomical object to Earth. Transient lunar phenomenon and Lunar observation are Observational astronomy.

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Lunar Prospector

Lunar Prospector was the third mission selected by NASA for full development and construction as part of the Discovery Program.

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Lunar regolith

Lunar regolith is the unconsolidated material found on the surface of the Moon and in the Moon's tenuous atmosphere.

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Lunar swirls

Lunar swirls are enigmatic features found across the Moon's surface, which are characterized by having a high albedo, appearing optically immature (i.e. having the optical characteristics of a relatively young regolith), and (often) having a sinuous shape. Transient lunar phenomenon and Lunar swirls are Unexplained phenomena and Unsolved problems in astronomy.

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Mare Crisium

Mare Crisium (Latin crisium, the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis.

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Mare Imbrium

Mare Imbrium (Latin imbrium, the "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains") is a vast lava plain within the Imbrium Basin on the Moon and is one of the larger craters in the Solar System.

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Mare Orientale

Mare Orientale (Latin orientāle, the "eastern sea") is a lunar mare.

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Mare Serenitatis

Mare Serenitatis (Latin serēnitātis, the "Sea of Serenity") is a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon.

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Mare Tranquillitatis

Mare Tranquillitatis (Latin for Sea of Tranquillity or Sea of Tranquility) is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon.

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Max Valier

Max Valier (9 February 1895 – 17 May 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer.

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Meteor shower

A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky.

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Micrometeorite

A micrometeorite is a micrometeoroid that has survived entry through the Earth's atmosphere.

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Montes Alpes

Montes Alpes is a mountain range in the northern part of the Moon's near side.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Moon Impact Probe

The Moon Impact Probe (MIP) developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India's national space agency, was a lunar probe that was released by ISRO's Chandrayaan-1 lunar remote sensing orbiter which in turn was launched, on 22 October 2008, aboard a modified version of ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.

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Nasmyth (crater)

Nasmyth is a lunar impact crater located near the southwestern limb of the Moon.

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Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev

Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Ко́зырев; 2 September 1908 – 27 February 1983) was a Soviet Russian astronomer and astrophysicist.

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Oceanus Procellarum

Oceanus Procellarum (from lit) is a vast lunar mare on the western edge of the near side of the Moon.

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Outgassing

Outgassing (sometimes called offgassing, particularly when in reference to indoor air quality) is the release of a gas that was dissolved, trapped, frozen, or absorbed in some material.

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Padua

Padua (Padova; Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital of the province of Padua.

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Pallas (crater)

Pallas is a heavily eroded lunar impact crater located to the north of the Sinus Medii.

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Paris Observatory

The Paris Observatory (Observatoire de Paris), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world.

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Parrot (crater)

Oblique view of Parrot D crater, with most of Parrot itself in upper right, from Apollo 14 Parrot is the remains of a lunar impact crater that has been almost completely worn away.

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Patrick Moore

Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.

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Peirescius (crater)

Peirescius is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon.

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Percy B. Molesworth

Percy Braybrooke Molesworth (2 April 1867 in Colombo – 25 December 1908) was a Major in the corps of Royal Engineers and an amateur astronomer.

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Philolaus (crater)

Philolaus is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon's near side.

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Pic du Midi de Bigorre

The Pic du Midi de Bigorre or simply the Pic du Midi (elevation) is a mountain in the French Pyrenees.

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Plato (crater)

Plato is a lava-filled lunar impact crater on the Moon.

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Polarization (waves)

italics (also italics) is a property of transverse waves which specifies the geometrical orientation of the oscillations.

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Posidonius (crater)

Posidonius is a lunar impact crater that is located on the north-eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis, to the south of Lacus Somniorum.

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Project A119

Project A119, also known as A Study of Lunar Research Flights, was a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force.

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Project Moon-Blink was a draft NASA created in 1965-1966, for the exploration of unusual phenomena (anomalies) on the surface of the Moon. Transient lunar phenomenon and Project Moon-Blink are astronomical imaging and lunar observation.

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Radiogenic nuclide

A radiogenic nuclide is a nuclide that is produced by a process of radioactive decay.

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Radon

Radon is a chemical element; it has symbol Rn and atomic number 86.

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Reiner (crater)

Reiner is a lunar impact crater on the Oceanus Procellarum, in the western part of the Moon.

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Reproducibility

Reproducibility, closely related to replicability and repeatability, is a major principle underpinning the scientific method.

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Ronald Evans (astronaut)

Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. (November 10, 1933 – April 7, 1990) was an American electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, officer and aviator in the United States Navy, and NASA astronaut.

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Schickard (crater)

Schickard is a lunar impact crater of the form called a walled plain.

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Schröter (lunar crater)

Schröter is a lunar impact crater near the mid-part of the Moon, on the eastern Mare Insularum.

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Schroter's Valley

Schroter's Valley, frequently known by the Latinized name Vallis Schröteri, is a sinuous valley or rille on the surface of the near side of the Moon.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Scientific control

A scientific control is an experiment or observation designed to minimize the effects of variables other than the independent variable (i.e. confounding variables).

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Selenography

Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon (also known as geography of the Moon, or selenodesy).

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Sinus Asperitatis

Sinus Asperitatis (Latin sinus asperitātis "Bay of Roughness") is an area of lunar mare that extends southward from the Mare Tranquillitatis until it joins the Mare Nectaris to the southeast.

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SMART-1

SMART-1 was a Swedish-designed European Space Agency satellite that orbited the Moon.

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Solar energetic particles

Solar energetic particles (SEP), formerly known as solar cosmic rays, are high-energy, charged particles originating in the solar atmosphere and solar wind.

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Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona.

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South (lunar crater)

South is a large lunar impact crater that is located in the northwest part of the Moon.

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Space.com

Space.com is an online publication focused on space exploration, astronomy, skywatching and entertainment, with editorial teams based in the United States and United Kingdom.

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Spectrometer

A spectrometer is a scientific instrument used to separate and measure spectral components of a physical phenomenon.

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Specular reflection

Specular reflection, or regular reflection, is the mirror-like reflection of waves, such as light, from a surface.

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Splitting of the Moon

The Splitting of the Moon (translit) is a miracle in the Muslim faith attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Sunspot

Sunspots are temporary spots on the Sun's surface that are darker than the surrounding area.

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Terminator (solar)

A terminator or twilight zone is a moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body.

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Thales (crater)

Thales is a small crater located in the northeast part of the Moon, just to the west of the larger crater Strabo.

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Theaetetus (crater)

Theaetetus is a lunar impact crater that is located to the southeast of the crater Cassini near the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium.

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Theophilus (crater)

Theophilus is a prominent lunar impact crater that lies between Sinus Asperitatis in the north and Mare Nectaris to the southeast.

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Timocharis (crater)

Timocharis is a prominent lunar impact crater located on the Mare Imbrium.

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Torricelli (crater)

Torricelli is a lunar impact crater in the eastern part of the Sinus Asperitatis, to the south of the Mare Tranquillitatis.

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Triboelectric effect

The triboelectric effect (also known as triboelectricity, triboelectric charging, triboelectrification, or tribocharging) describes electric charge transfer between two objects when they contact or slide against each other.

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Walter Goodacre

Walter Goodacre (1856 – 1 May 1938) was a British businessman and amateur astronomer.

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Walter H. Haas

Walter H. Haas (July 3, 1917 – April 6, 2015) was an American amateur astronomer.

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William Henry Pickering

William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer.

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William Herschel

Frederick William Herschel (Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer and composer.

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William Maw

William Henry Maw (6 December 1838 – 19 March 1924) was a British civil engineer and astronomer.

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Willy Ley

Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906 – June 24, 1969) was a German and American science writer and proponent of cryptozoology.

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Winifred Cameron

Winifred Sawtell Cameron (December 3, 1918 – March 29, 2016) was an American astronomer.

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Young (crater)

Young is a lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged southeast part of the Moon's near side.

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Zdeněk Kopal

Zdeněk Kopal (4 April 1914 – 23 June 1993) was a Czechoslovak astronomer who mainly worked in England.

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See also

Lunar observation

Unexplained phenomena

Unsolved problems in astronomy

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_lunar_phenomenon

Also known as Lunar Transient Phenomena, Lunar impact, Lunar transient phenomenon, Transient lunar phenomena.

, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Josep Comas i Solà, Kant (crater), Kepler (lunar crater), Kirch (crater), Langrenus (crater), LCROSS, Libration, Lichtenberg (crater), Linné (crater), Lowell Observatory, Lunar geologic timescale, Lunar lava tube, Lunar mare, Lunar observation, Lunar Prospector, Lunar regolith, Lunar swirls, Mare Crisium, Mare Imbrium, Mare Orientale, Mare Serenitatis, Mare Tranquillitatis, Max Valier, Meteor shower, Micrometeorite, Montes Alpes, Moon, Moon Impact Probe, Nasmyth (crater), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Oceanus Procellarum, Outgassing, Padua, Pallas (crater), Paris Observatory, Parrot (crater), Patrick Moore, Peirescius (crater), Percy B. Molesworth, Philolaus (crater), Pic du Midi de Bigorre, Plato (crater), Polarization (waves), Posidonius (crater), Project A119, Project Moon-Blink, Radiogenic nuclide, Radon, Reiner (crater), Reproducibility, Ronald Evans (astronaut), Schickard (crater), Schröter (lunar crater), Schroter's Valley, Scientific American, Scientific control, Selenography, Sinus Asperitatis, SMART-1, Solar energetic particles, Solar wind, South (lunar crater), Space.com, Spectrometer, Specular reflection, Splitting of the Moon, Sunspot, Terminator (solar), Thales (crater), Theaetetus (crater), Theophilus (crater), Timocharis (crater), Torricelli (crater), Triboelectric effect, Walter Goodacre, Walter H. Haas, William Henry Pickering, William Herschel, William Maw, Willy Ley, Winifred Cameron, Young (crater), Zdeněk Kopal.