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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
Category: Geography
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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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