The MOON |
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| by Ted Peterson |
| This web site is a short article on earth's moon. |
| The moon takes 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 1 second to make one rotation around the earth. As you see this does not cover a month so a new moon will come at a different day each month. You can check this by a report that some news papers print that shows the day each month when the new moon comes, etc. |
| The moon also makes one revolution in 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes so by doing that the far side of the moon never points to earth. The only way that man can see what is on the other side of the moon it to take a space ship around the moon. |
| The moon's at the shortest distance 221,456 miles from earth and 252,711 miles when it is at the greatest distance. |
| The moon weighs about 1/50th the weight of earth. |
| The diameter of the moon is about 2,161 miles or (3,476 kilometers). This makes the circumference about 6,790 miles. As you see the moon is small when its circumference is only 6,790 when the earth which has a circumference of 24,859 miles . |
| The length of a day on the moon is the same as 15 days on earth. The surface gravity is a little less than 1/6 what it is on earth. If you can jump 2 foot high on earth you could jump 12 feet on the moon. |
| There is little or no atmosphere on the moon. You will have to take your own oxygen,etc. The temperature on the moon, in the sun is 260 degrees and at night -280 degrees. |
| The moon is speeding at 2,300 miles an hour on its trip around earth. The moon's surface area is about 13,670,240 sq miles. The moon is 4,600,000,000 years old. (It is old) |
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