Published: Friday, June 1, 2007. 1  The Moon's increasing distance has to do with a physics concept called angular momentum, which is a body's resistance to a change in its rotation or orbit. If we look at the Earth-Moon system, we find two sources of angular momentum â Earth, which rotates once every 24 hours, and the Moon, which orbits the Earth every 27.3 days. The Moon's increasing distance has to do with a physics concept called angular momentum, which is a body's resistance to a change in its rotation or orbit.
Saddam is hanged at 6 a.m. on 30 December. His body is buried the next day at al-Awja, his home village. Comment: There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a ruthless killer and that his regime was dictatorial, murderous and repugnant. Up to 450,000 Iraqi and 730,000 Iranian combatants died during the Iran-Iraq War.
Official Iraqi government statistics show that, prior to the outbreak of the First Gulf War in 1991, the rate of cancer cases in Iraq was 40 out of 100,000 people. By 1995, it had increased to 800 out of 100,000 people, and, by 2005, it had doubled to at least 1,600 out of 100,000 people.