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Name: Moon Age: 4.5 billion years old Mass: 73'490'000'000'000'000 million kg Shape: Egg-shaped Family: Member of our solar system, satellite of earth Active Relationships: Orbits around the earth Distance from earth: 384'467 km (~364 397 km at perigee, ~406 731 km at apogee) Traveling by car: 130 days Traveling by rocket: 13 hours Traveling by light speed: 1.52 sec Diameter: 3476 km (1/4 of the Earth's) Driving around by car: 4 days Gravity acceleration: 1.62m/sec2 (1/6 of Earth's) Revolution period: 27.3217 days Mean Synodic period(new moon to new moon): 29.530588861 days Mean orbital velocity: 1.023 km/sec

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The surface temperature fluctuates from +300 degrees F during 2 week daystime to -270 degrees F during the 2 week midnight. this is because there is not enough atmosphere to keeo the moon warm at ...

Domain: Astronomy; Category: Moon

Because of the loss of orbital energy to gravity from the Earth, the moon is very gradually moving away from the earth. In the very early history of the Earth, the moon looked about 3 times larger ...

Domain: Astronomy; Category: Moon

The same side of the Moon always faces the earth. The moon's rotation period id synchronous with its revolution period around he Earth.

Domain: Astronomy; Category: Moon

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