Moon by BoulierJ

"Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon,/ With the old Moon in her arms;/ And I fear, I fear, my Master dear!/ We shall have a deadly storm." The above is a quote from the 'Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens'. One suggestion for the inspiration of the ballad is that it deals with expedition to retrieve THIS SEVEN YEAR OLD HEIRESS to the Scottish throne, who died on her way back from Scandinavia. Who was she?

The "new moon with the old moon in her arms" refers to WHAT PHENOMENON, which describes the indirect sunlight that makes the features of the moon just barely visible during the phase referred to as the "new moon".

"New Moon" is the second book in a certain YA series, that, per the authoress, derives its name from "the darkest period of Bella’s life." What is THIS AUTHOR'S NAME?

Can you name THIS 2009 MOVIE, in which complications arise after astronaut Sam Bell has an unusual encounter towards the end of his three-year stay on the Moon?

One theory for the origin of Earth's Moon is the impact of a Mars-sized planetoid with Proto-Earth; with the debris from that collision eventually coalescing to form the Moon. What is the name of THAT PLANETOID, which shares its name with the mother of the goddess Selene?

The Greek moon-goddess Selene's most referenced myth is her love for a mortal prince (or sometimes a shepherd, or sometimes both), who is eternally young, and eternally asleep. Selene visits him nightly, and bears him fifty daughters. What is the name of THIS PRINCE?

Contrary to popular belief, THIS ASTRONAUT did not smuggle a set of golf clubs to the moon. While at the time he exclaimed that the second golf ball he hit went “miles and miles and miles...", photographic evidence suggests that it only went forty yards. Who was he?

The inventor of the pendulum clock, Christiaan Huygens is also well known for having discovered a certain large moon, on which was landed a probe from Cassini-Huygens space mission. What is the name of THIS MOON?

Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is often claimed to have derived its name from the moonlight shining on the waters of THIS LAKE, the fourth largest in Switzerland, which shares its name with a canton in the middle of that country.

Ludwig Rellstab, who provided the Moonlight Sonata with its popular name, was jailed for criticizing Gaspare Spontini. Spontini's most well-known work was the opera La Vestale, written with the encouragement of WHAT EMPRESS, one of the few monarchs to have been born in the West Indies?

This Greco-Roman satirist is sometimes held as the first science fiction author, as his circa 150AD "A True Story" features not only a trip to the Moon, but a war between the inhabitants of the Moon and the Sun, using all manner of fantastic beasts. Can you name THIS AUTHOR?

A somewhat later science fiction novel about a trip to the moon is "From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes" and its sequel, "Around the Moon". The explorers are shot out of a giant cannon. Alas, this is currently deemed impractical. What is the name of THE AUTHOR who wrote these books?