Moon
by Brandon

The moon is pretty much the same thing as the earth, just lighter and smaller. It is really weak - one sixth of the weight of the earth. It is so weak it does not hold a moon. Its gravity of force is weaker than the earths. It is filled with crystals. The moon is the earth's only satellite. The moon is dry and has 0 gravity. On the moon you need a helmet to breathe and it is very cold. The moon's mass is 1.2 of the earth's mass. It would take eight of the moon's mass to equal the earth's mass.
Characteristics of the Moon.
The trip to the moon and back it takes about four days.
The moon is 384,400 kilometers from the earth and the diameter is 3476
kilometers. The mass of the moon is 7.349. The radius is 1,737.4. The density
is 3.34. The distance from the earth is 384,400 km. The period of
orbit is 27.32166 and 50 is the rotation too. Orbit Velocity is 1.03, the
eccentricity orbit is 0.0549. The inclination of orbit is 5.1454. The visual
albedo is 0.12. Visual magnitude is -12.74 the surface temperature
is 102 to 153 C . The moon has the core, non rigid as is the mantle, Rigid
Lithosprenic Mantle, and crust, there are four layers of the moon.
People Who Went to the Moon
Neil Armstrong was the first and the oldest to go the moon. Buzz Adrin and Michal Colins were other people who went to the moon.
The moon's surface is covered with craters caused by
rocks. Meteorites crashed into the moon that caused earth's gravity to
get into the moon's gravity. The phases of the moon are full moon, waxing
gibbous, first quarter, waxing cresent, new moon, waning cresent, and waning
gibbous. The basin of luna is Schrodinger which is 200 miles (320 kilometers)
in diameter. Crater diameter is (185) km or 125 miles. Luna is the fifth
biggest moon in the galaxy.
Credits:
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