The Moon
The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth, and the only celestial body where humans have landed. It is approximately 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles) away from the Earth, and has an approximate diameter of 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles).
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DisneyWorldLoverFirst, you need to find the information you need to solve for the answer. A pea measures approximately 1 cm in diameter (from one...
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No! The Sun is thousands of times more massive than the Earth.
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That would be our "moon".
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233 times.. Each time it passes is a year, so just subtract the years then from 2009.
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Gravity provides a centripetal force on the Moon, helping it stay in orbit around Earth. TRUE!!! ...
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It's stuck in the Earth gravitaional pull. Another answer: Because the Earth has a gravitational pull on the moon. Actually, the...
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Seasons occur because the Earth is tilted on her axis, not because of the distance from the sun. When the northern hemisphere is...
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For London, the last total eclipse of the Moon was on 21st February 2008. The next will be on 21st December 2010
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"if you could stand on the surface of the Moon, you would experience only 17% the force of gravity that you would experience on...
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It revolves around the sun and rotates on its axis.
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Yes. Appearing first as a skinny crescent on the right side, the visible portion of the moon grows to a full disk, and then...
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It changes shape because the angle the moon is on. The sun reflects light off the moon, so each angle of the moon has a different...
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How often does a full lunar eclipse occar
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The most commonly adopted form of forward locomotion was the "bunny hop". From the Apollo 11 Technical Debrief...
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The Sun's diameter is about 110 times the diameter of the Earth, which makes the Sun about a million times the volume of the...
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Approximately 9.8 Newtons(Force weight = mass * acceleration of gravity)
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We don't. Best guess is that the two are of approximate equal age.
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As the surface of the moon is dark during a new moon this would be the phase when it is not visible.
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A satellite is an object that rotates around a bigger object in the sky. For example the planets in the solar system apart from...
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For Jerusalem, the last total solar eclipse was on 20th August 993 (Yes 993 not 1993)
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While on the surface the astronauts communicated via radio. While inside the LM there was air so the astronauts could speak...
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it depends because lunar eclipses happen every four years there was one a year ago on Tuesday night, so three years from now if...
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atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere and biosphere
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It already has everything it needs; mass and energy. With that, and a little time, we can make everything else that we need.
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The Sun has 200 times more mass than ALL the planets, moons, asteroids and comets all put together.
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By volume or by mass? The sun is 2x10^30 kg. The moon is 7x10^22 kg. The ratio is 28 million (the sun is 28 million times more...
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Yes indeed. And it also means that the earth is attracted toward you ! The force of gravity draws every pair of objects...
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Not much. It is a static (unchanging) environment. Once every couple of weeks the sun either sets or rises--the lunar day is...
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Actually it doesn't. It would need a very specific speed to travel in an exact circle. The Earth, and other planets, travel...
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it is the new moon, the full moon, the first quarter, the last quarter and that all
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The dark, center, dark part of the shadow is called the umbra, and the lighter part is called the perumbra.
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Apollo Missions did it in 3 days.
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Moon fragments could be part of the moon as well as external bodies that have hit the lunar surface such as asteroids and...
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Ice is white. White surfaces reflects sunlight better than any other color.
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An astronaut is a person who is trained to travel and explore in space. The first astronauts to land on the moon landed on July...
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The first quarter phase comes after a waxing crescent
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I have seen one with the naked eye that was about 21 hours old. I would estimate that is less than one half of one percent of the...
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10 pounds. The moon's gravitational acceleration is one sixth that of Earth's. Hence a person who weighed 60 pounds on the Earth...
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The moon is very important for the earth. It keeps the earth's tilt (angle towards the sun) steady. Without the moon, the earth...
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its going to be somewhere in the northeast of canada. the eclipse will appear in 2020
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When you can not see the moon in the sky it is called a new moon
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Objects orbiting a planet called satellites. They can be natural satellite like Earth's Moon or artificial satellites such as the...
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There is less gravity on Mercury than the earth because mercury is smaller and has a smaller gravitational field.
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First of all, i think you mean a lunar eclipse. It has to be a full moon during a lunar eclipse because a full moon is when the...
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No. The Full moon is over the center of the night side of Earth, and "noon" is pretty close to the center of the daylight side....
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The moon takes 27.32 days to rotate once. It rotates 0.0366 of a time each day.
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it would be horrible because you would not be able to comment on the weather or tell your wife that you love them. the world...
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When a lunar eclipse is in progress, it's visible from any place on earth where the moon is visible ... nominally half of the...
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No. Newtons are a measurement of mass and are relative only to Earth's gravity and are not affected by changes in gravity. Only...
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The Moon is not within the Earth's atmosphere. The Moon is at a distance of about 380,000 km.; the Earth's atmosphere doesn't end...
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The Gemini 8 was the first spaceship that NEIL ARMSTRONG used. I'm not so sure about the first spaceship that carried the first...
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Jump around and throw things... well... That's what I would do... Only twelve men have ever walked on the Moon. Apart from...
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A major effect of the Moon's revolution around the Earth is the tides. The gravity of the Moon (and of the Sun, too) pull on the...
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More or less spherical, like all large objects.
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The moon always causes high tides. It is the time of day when the high tide occurs depends on the moon's phase. When the moon...
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If the Moon is up, you can see half of the Moon; the side that faces the Earth. The "far side" of the Moon is never visible from...
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The moon rotates once for every time it revolves around the Earth. This is why we only see one side of it. This condition is...
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This is a pure coincidence. Nothing other than that has caused this unusual arrangement.
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Monday. That's it.
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There are two main shadows that Earth projects; one is called the 'umbra', which is the complete shadow where all direct light is...
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2002 remake of The Time Machine
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Yes. Because of the way the light from the sun hits the moon, there is a side that can never be seen from Earth.
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if you are a beam of light, travelling 300,000 km/s, you can do it in about 8 minutes. If you are a car travelling at a steady...
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Weight is affected by gravity, while mass does not. On Earth mass and weight are the same, yet on the moon your weight could be...
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Since they are both headed toward the center of the moon at the same rate of acceleration they should hit the moons surface at...
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No. The same side of the moon always faces the earth. (Not the sun.) You can look at the moon to see this. Every night (and...
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Yes. It happened on the 9th of October 2009.
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384,403 kilometres (238,857.54 miles)
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idk why you idiots put stuff like this on here!! such D I C K S y'all are
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By using the Descent Stage engine on the Lunar module.
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In 1968, the crew of the NASA mission Apollo 8 were the first to travel to the Moon, but did not land there. On July 20, 1969,...
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The sun is a star, which is primarily hydrogen gas which has gathered in significant volumes to heat the core and start a nuclear...
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A solar eclipse means the Moon gets in front of the Sun, covers the Sun. When the Moon is in that region, it is new moon. A...
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it doesnt move quite fast enough to make it in 365 days even
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A lunar eclipse occurs when the normally full Moon crosses into the Earth's shadow, thereby creating a darkened area on the moon....
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New moon day is the day in every month which the moon is completely seen.
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-- Air -- Water -- Plants -- Animals -- People But the moon does have trash that people have discarded.
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Yes. There is no atmosphere there, so the sky would be clearer. There would be no light pollution which would also help. The...
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Mostly, the Moon reflects the light from the Sun. However, it also reflects the sunlight that is reflected from the Earth, and...
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The Moon has a reflective surface. So it reflects off of the suns light. Making it seem like it is shining! The Moon also...
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Niel Alden Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. look him up and you'll see some pictures of his foot print still...
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From the moon the constellations would not be very different as seen from Earth, so a star atlas used on Earth would be ok to use...
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Simply "Moon" (always capitalised)
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Eugene Cernan and Harrison schmitt were the last men to set foot on the moon
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Not particularly. The Earth's rotation around the Solar System is controlled by the Sun but the Moon is mostly controlled by the...
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No, it is larger - diameter is about 4 times as big.
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No. A storm involves movement of air; the Moon has no atmosphere to speak of.
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When the Romans were speaking Latin.
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He wasn't really chosen, it was basically the luck of the draw. All the Apollo flights were scheduled on a rotating basis. When...
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Theoretically it would be weightless at the centre point of the earth.
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