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The new lunar time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC), is all about ensuring the success of future, multinational missions to the moon, said Michelle Hanlon, the executive director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi.
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Kai McNamee, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
Astronomers—or astrologers, really, but the goal was the same—were able to predict both lunar and solar eclipses with impressive accuracy.
—Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
But time on Earth doesn't quite track with lunar time because of relativity, the White House memo noted.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
An illustration from the Dresden Codex shows the Venus god descending from a sky band containing solar and lunar symbols.
—Kimberly H. Breuer, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Park’s team feeds the lunar and solar position data — alongside similar parameters for the planets and hundreds of asteroids, and corrections for things like pressure from the solar wind, and not just the laws of Newton’s gravity but the subtler tweaks of general relativity — into a computer model.
—Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Establishing a lunar time zone will better enable communications between spacecraft, data transfers, landing, docking and navigation.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
The space agency aims to establish a scientific lunar base that could help set the stage for future missions to Mars.
—Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
The sun and moon are hidden from sight in lunar and solar eclipses.
—Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
Kai McNamee, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
Astronomers—or astrologers, really, but the goal was the same—were able to predict both lunar and solar eclipses with impressive accuracy.
—Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
But time on Earth doesn't quite track with lunar time because of relativity, the White House memo noted.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
An illustration from the Dresden Codex shows the Venus god descending from a sky band containing solar and lunar symbols.
—Kimberly H. Breuer, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Park’s team feeds the lunar and solar position data — alongside similar parameters for the planets and hundreds of asteroids, and corrections for things like pressure from the solar wind, and not just the laws of Newton’s gravity but the subtler tweaks of general relativity — into a computer model.
—Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Establishing a lunar time zone will better enable communications between spacecraft, data transfers, landing, docking and navigation.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
The space agency aims to establish a scientific lunar base that could help set the stage for future missions to Mars.
—Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
The sun and moon are hidden from sight in lunar and solar eclipses.
—Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Lunar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunar. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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lunar
adjective
lu·nar
ˈlü-nər 
1
: of, relating to, or resembling the moon
lunar craters
a lunar landscape
2
: measured by the moon's revolution
lunar month
Medical Definition
lunar
adjective
lu·nar
ˈlü-nər also -ˌnär
: lunate
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