Sentence examples for Once a moon from inspiring English sources

Once a moon is in synchronous rotation, it always keeps the same hemisphere facing the planet and the same hemispheres forward and rearward in its orbit; the deformation no longer travels but remains stationary in the moon's reference frame, and frictional heating does not occur.

At other times, he notices the grandeur of the impersonal universe, reporting on black holes — "Around me, asteroids, wrecks and entire planets drift at an amazing speed towards the huge Black God!" — neutron stars, or, once, a moon that, upon closer inspection, turned out to be a giant ball of liquid helium, a source of wonder and of fuel.

Perhaps Sedna once had a moon, but it was later lost or destroyed.

I'll give him an unshelled peanut once a blue moon.

Once a proto-Moon was present in the debris cloud, it would have quickly swept up the remaining fragments in a tremendous bombardment.

Once a year, Reverend Moon would come in and give us a pep talk.

Approximately once a year, the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow somewhere on the planet.

There's a story that Jack Nicholson once mooned a crowd of Celtics fans at the Boston Garden during a basketball game.

massive pine forest, clove, resin," a "once-in-a-blue-moon" steal at $18.61 a bottle.

This is a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity to get a crash course in Asian technology and its associated culture.

For most people, heart palpitations are a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence.