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Article name

Hello. I was wondering if it was really necessary to have this article named as "The Moon". Shouldn't it just be "Moon" or "Earth's moon" ect? I would like other's thoughts on this. Thanks, RyanCross (talk) 07:16, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Invisible during the day

But during the day the light of the sun is too bright for us to see the Moon. Really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.255.23.124 (talk • contribs)

Space junk

Noted incidents of space junk hitting the Moon:

March 2022: Rocket parts are expected to fall on the Moon on March 4, 2022; Bill Gray (a mathematician and physicist) thinks that the parts are not^[1] from the carrier rocket that sent the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite "to a gravitationally-stable Lagrange point",^[2] in 2015.^[3]
Source (after the event), [1]. 89.8.77.210 (talk) 06:21, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

↑ https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/verden/2022/03/04/manen-er-i-ferd-med-a-bli-truffet-av-romskrot/#:~:text=Tre%20tonn%20roms%C3%B8ppel%2C%20sannsynligvis%20en,lage%20et%20stort%2C%20evig%20krater.&text=Fredag%20treffer%20rakettrestene%20baksiden%20av,rundt%209.300%20kilometer%20i%20timen. Dagsavisen. Retrieved March 4, 2022
↑ Mellow, Craig (August 2014). "Al Gore's Satellite". Air & Space/Smithsonian. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
↑ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-chunk-of-spacex-rocket-is-going-to-slam-into-the-moon-180979470/

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.8.77.210 (talk • contribs) 06:18, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Red-linked refs

There are one or two, and there should not be. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:24, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's just the name of a journal. The link can easily be removed. Kk.urban (talk) 18:36, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/verden/2022/03/04/manen-er-i-ferd-med-a-bli-truffet-av-romskrot/#:~:text=Tre%20tonn%20roms%C3%B8ppel%2C%20sannsynligvis%20en,lage%20et%20stort%2C%20evig%20krater.&text=Fredag%20treffer%20rakettrestene%20baksiden%20av,rundt%209.300%20kilometer%20i%20timen. Dagsavisen. Retrieved March 4, 2022

[airspace201408-2] Mellow, Craig (August 2014). "Al Gore's Satellite". Air & Space/Smithsonian. Retrieved December 12, 2014.

[3] ttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-chunk-of-spacex-rocket-is-going-to-slam-into-the-moon-180979470/

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