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Moon
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Moon
Drug slang noun A regional term for mescaline
Popular health noun See Full moon
Vox populi verb To display one's bared buttocks by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over. Mooning is done in the English-speaking world to express protest, scorn, disrespect, or provocation but can be done for shock value or fun.
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Through the detections of shadows cast upon the rings, a moonlet has been spotted for the first time in Saturn's dense B ring and narrow vertical structures are seen soaring upward from Saturn's intricate F ring.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals 3D objects in Saturn's otherwise ... by Asian News International
Otherwise taken, their value is negligible, and the preponderance of them--taken with moons, moonlets, asteroids, rings and such--might well be classified as navigational hazards rather than prizes of great value.
C. J. Cherryh: the ties that bind by Clark, Stephen R.L. / Yearbook of English Studies
The scientists suspect that the gaps were created by fragments of the shattered moon-tiny moonlets about 100 meters (330 feet) across.
Saturn's rings created by collision by Sohn, Emily / Science News for Kids
 
 
 
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