All About The Moon!

Find out how the moon affects the Earth, how it is formed, and many other interesting facts!

Table of Contents

Moon Facts..................................3 How The Moon Was Formed………4

The Moon’s Composition……………..5

The size of the moon………….............6

The distance from earth……………..6

Some affects of the moon……..6 The moon’s phases………………7 The moon’s orbit…………………7 Crossword puzzle……………..8-9 Timeline….……………………….10 Postcard ………………………….11 Advertisements……………..…12

What are some facts about Earth’s moon?

The moon is the Earth’s only natural satellite

The moon is about 238,900 miles away from the Earth.

The moon is about one quarter size of the Earth.

It has about one- six of the Earth’s gravity.

The moon is made up of rock and dust.

It takes about one month for the moon to travel or orbit around the Earth.

The surface of the moon has mountains, craters, valleys, and lava plains.

How was the moon formed?

Some believe that the Earth was struck by a small planet the size of Mars and it created the moon.

Or that the Earth spun so fast a

piece of the crust broke off and became the moon.

Or that the moon is a captured asteroid.

What is the moon’s composition?

The moon’s composition is; many different type of rocks such as basalt

and breccia

Molten debris,

Volcanic Igneous Rocks

And soil.

What size is the moon? How far is it from Earth? What are some effects on the Earth? The moon is

about 3,189 km in size.

Subsequent evolution of the Earth and development of life, has been strongly influenced by the presence of the moon.

The ocean tides are the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon combined.

The moon is about 382,683 km away from the Earth.

Tides estimated to have produced displacements in the Earth’s solid surface of u[ to a kilometer.

What are the phases and the orbit of the moon? There are eight phases of the

moon.

The moon completes it’s orbit around the moon at 27.3 days.

The moon’s orbit is called synchronous rotation.

(6) Waning Gibbous Moon - From now on, until it becomes new again, the illuminated part of the Moon that we can see decreases, and we say it's waning. The first week after full, it is called waning gibbous. (7) Last Quarter Moon - Three weeks after new, we again can see half of the illuminated part. This is usually called last quarter. (8) Waning Crescent Moon - Finally, during the fourth week, the Moon is reduced to a thin sliver from us, sometimes called waning crescent. A while after four weeks (29.5 days, more precisely) the illuminated half of the Moon again faces away from us, and we come back to the beginning of the cycle: a new moon. Sometimes, when the Moon is almost new, it is possible to dimly see its darkened disk. The light from the Sun cannot reach this part of the Moon directly; but at this time the Earth (as viewed from the Moon) is at its full and very bright, and what we see is light reflected from the Earth, that then bounces back at us from the Moon. It's a long trip for this light: from the Sun to the Earth, to the Moon, and back to the Earth.

(1) New Moon - When the Moon is roughly in the same direction as the Sun, its illuminated half is facing away from the Earth, and therefore the part that faces us is all dark: we have the new moon. When in this phase, the Moon and the Sun rise and set at about the same time. (2) Waxing Crescent Moon - As the Moon moves around the Earth, we get to see more and more of the illuminated half, and we say the Moon is waxing. At first we get a sliver of it, which grows as days go by. This phase is called the crescent moon. (3) Quarter Moon - A week after the new moon, when the Moon has completed about a quarter of its turn around the Earth, we can see half of the illuminated part; that is, a quarter of the Moon. This is the first quarter phase. (4) Waxing Gibbous Moon - During the next week, we keep seeing more and more of the illuminated part of the Moon, and it is now called waxing gibbous (gibbous means "humped"). (5) Full Moon - Two weeks after the new moon, the moon is now halfway through its revolution, and now the illuminated half coincides with the one facing the Earth, so that we can see a full disk: we have a full moon. As mentioned above, at this time the Moon rises at the time the Sun sets, and it sets when the Sun rises. If the Moon happens to align exactly with the Earth and Sun, then we get a lunar eclipse.

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(1) When the Moon is in the same direction as the Sun, its illuminated half is facing away from the Earth, and the part that faces us is all dark: we have the new moon. When in this phase, the Moon and the Sun rise and set at about the same time. (2) As the Moon moves around the Earth, we get to see more and more of the illuminated half, and we say the Moon is waxing. At first we get a sliver of it, which grows as days go by. This phase is called the crescent moon. (3) A week after the new moon, when the Moon has completed about a quarter of its turn around the Earth, we can see half of the illuminated part; that is, a quarter of the Moon. This is the first quarter phase. (4) During the next week, we keep seeing more and more of the illuminated part of the Moon, and it is now called waxing gibbous (gibbous means "humped").

(5) Two weeks after the new moon, the moon is now halfway through its revolution, and now the illuminated half coincides with the one facing the Earth, so that we can see a full disk: we have a full moon. As mentioned above, at this time the Moon rises at the time the Sun sets, and it sets when the Sun rises. If the Moon happens to align exactly with the Earth and Sun, then we get a lunar eclipse.

6) From now on, until it becomes new again, the illuminated part of the Moon that we can see decreases, and we say it's waning. The first week after full, it is called waning gibbous. (7) Three weeks after new, we again can see half of the illuminated part. This is usually called last quarter. (8) Finally, during the fourth week, the Moon is reduced to a thin sliver from us, sometimes called waning crescent.

The European Space Agency performed a controlled crash impact with their orbiter SMART-1 on 3 September 2006. India's Space Agency ISRO performed a controlled crash impact with its Moon Impact Probe (MIP) on 14 November 2008.

A total of twelve men have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained onboard the Command Module. The last three missions had a rover for increased mobility.

On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth!

1968 with Apollo 5, the first test of the Lunar Module in space. The final unmanned Apollo Mission was Apollo 6 which launched

on 4 April 1968.

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The Soviet Union performed the first

moon landing in 1959 by crashing the Luna 2 spacecraft at high speed onto the lunar surface

a feat duplicated in 1962 by the Americans with Ranger 4.

The manned Apollo missions began with Apollo 7's Earth orbit, which launched 11 October 1968 and splashed down on 22 October 1968

. Apollo 8 launched on 21 December 1968,

orbited the moon and returned to Earth 27 December 1968

Apollo 9 was another Earth orbit mission, launching 03 March 1969, testing the lunar module and splashing down on 13 March 1969

Hello from Neil Armstrong from and Buzz Aldrin the moon! We have just landed and it’s amazing! The Earth is really pretty from up here. Wish us luck on the trip back. Hope to be back soon.

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