101.9 KING Radio » moon http://kingfm.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:29:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Stargazers, There's a Great View of The Moon Close to Jupiter Tonight http://kingfm.com/stargazers-theres-a-great-view-of-the-moon-close-to-jupiter-tonight/ http://kingfm.com/stargazers-theres-a-great-view-of-the-moon-close-to-jupiter-tonight/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:18:06 +0000 Grateful Mike http://kingfm.com/?p=229553 Do you like gazing into the sky, seeing how many planets and constellations you can find?

Tonight it will be easy finding Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet is nestled next to the moon as the two brightest objects in our night sky.

]]> http://kingfm.com/stargazers-theres-a-great-view-of-the-moon-close-to-jupiter-tonight/feed/ 0 The Far Side of the Moon Shot by Apollo 16 in 1972 (NASA/Central Press/Getty) Supermoon This Weekend Will Be The Year's Biggest http://kingfm.com/supermoon-this-weekend-will-be-this-years-biggest/ http://kingfm.com/supermoon-this-weekend-will-be-this-years-biggest/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 20:13:39 +0000 Grateful Mike http://kingfm.com/?p=66858 Plane Flies Across The Moon (Dan Kitwood/Getty)Are you throwing a full moon party?

This weekend, the moon will be the closest to the Earth as it will get all year long, called perigee by Astonomers.
The full moon officially occurs at 9:35 MDT on Saturday night, so it's prime time to host a 'howlingly' fun get together, hopefully we'll have clear skies over Cheyenne to enjoy all the moonshine.

]]> http://kingfm.com/supermoon-this-weekend-will-be-this-years-biggest/feed/ 0 Plane Flies Across The Moon (Dan Kitwood/Getty) Newt Gingrich Wants to Make the Moon the 51st State http://kingfm.com/newt-gingrich-moon/ http://kingfm.com/newt-gingrich-moon/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:24:09 +0000 Kathy Landin http://tsminteractive.com/?p=73050 Newt Gingrich definitely knows how to play to his audience. In a campaign speech near Cape Canaveral, FL, on Wednesday, Gingrich promised that, as president, he would push to colonize the moon.

]]> http://kingfm.com/newt-gingrich-moon/feed/ 0 Joe Raedle, Getty Images NASA Moon Probes To Play Chase Over Lunar Surface http://kingfm.com/nasa-moon-probes-to-play-chase-over-lunar-surface/ http://kingfm.com/nasa-moon-probes-to-play-chase-over-lunar-surface/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:36:46 +0000 Grateful Mike http://kingfm.com/?p=11746 NASA is sending a set of robotic twins to the moon to measure lunar gravity while chasing one another around in circles.

Thursday and Friday's scheduled launches were delayed by high winds at Cape Canaveral, so NASA will try again on Saturday morning. Their launch window extends into mid-October.

The near-identical twins called GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B, (short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory), will create the most precise lunar gravity map ever, helping scientists figure out what's beneath the lunar surface and pinpoint the best landing sites for future explorers.

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