Dec . 21, 1968 _ Americans Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders head for a Christmas Eve orbit of the moon in their Apollo capsule.
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If the Earth and the Moon were affected differently by the gravity of the Sun, this would directly affect the orbit of the Moon around the Earth.
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The actual distance varies over the course of the orbit of the Moon, from at the perigee to at apogee, resulting in a differential range of.
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The black shape on the left is a thruster on the LM . It was taken during the 13th orbit of the Moon by Dave Scott . ]]
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The orbits of the moons are confirmed to be circular and coplanar, with inclinations differing less than 0.4?and eccentricities less than 0.005.
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It is estimated that a quarter of the people alive at the time saw either live or delayed the Christmas Eve transmission during the ninth orbit of the Moon.
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Astronomically, the zodiac defines a belt of space extending 9?either side of the ecliptic, within which the orbits of the Moon and the principal planets remain.
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It was the first NASA sample return mission to return material since the Apollo Program, and the first to return material from beyond the orbit of the Moon.
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The orbits of the moon and the five planets known to the Greeks are close enough to the ecliptic to make it a convenient reference for defining their positions as well.
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The "'lunar nodes "'are the orbital nodes of the Moon, that is, the points where the orbit of the Moon crosses the ecliptic.
