the Moon

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
In Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves", this mysteriously blows up into 7 pieces that rain bolides onto Earth the Moon $800 DJ LITERARY BAD DAY FOR THE PLANET 2023-04-05 #8843
Its perigee, the closest it can come to Earth, is 221,456 miles the Moon $200 J ASTRONOMY 2001-05-18 #3860
This heavenly body rules the sign of Cancer; perhaps that's what makes Cancerians moody the Moon $400 J ASTROLOGY 1995-01-31 #2402
In 1959 the USSR's Luna 3 provided the first photos of this body's far side the Moon $200 DJ ASTRONOMY 1994-05-11 #2243
Mapping of its far side didn't begin until 1959 the Moon $100 J ASTRONOMY 1993-12-10 #2135
The first Surveyor probe was sent to this body in 1966 in preparation for the manned landing the Moon $300 J ASTRONOMY & SPACE 1993-01-28 #1939
Helpful to farmers, the full moon nearest the autumnal equinox is called this the harvest moon $600 DJ ASTRONOMY 1991-03-21 #1519
H.G. Wells & Yuri Gagarin have geographic features named for them here the Moon $500 J ASTRONOMY 1990-12-19 #1453
The average distance between the earth & this is 239,000 miles, not too far the moon $300 J ASTRONOMY 1989-06-19 #1121
People born under the sign of Cancer are ruled by this heavenly body & are known as its "children" the Moon $800 DJ ASTROLOGY 1989-05-11 #1094
Selenography is the science that deals with charting the surface features of this the moon $600 DJ ASTRONOMY 1989-03-03 #1045
The 1st live pictures of a manned liftoff from here were transmitted in August 1971 the moon $1,000 DJ MAN IN SPACE 1988-01-15 #780
In 1959, The Soviet spacecraft Lunik 3 took 1st pictures of its far side the moon $100 J ASTRONOMY 1987-12-21 #761
Trying for a soft landing here, Russian Lunas 5, 6, 7 & 8 missed it entirely or crashed the moon $200 J MAN IN SPACE 1986-11-06 #499
The only space satellite whose features could be observed prior to the invention of the telescope the Moon $200 J ASTRONOMY 1985-05-01 #168
The brightest object in the Earth's night sky the moon $200 DJ ASTRONOMY 1985-02-01 #105
It affects both tides & werewolves the Moon $100 J SPACE 1984-09-17 #6
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