What are some fun moon facts?

Answer 1

The moon has craters, and we always see the same ones from Earth.

It takes the moon 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11.6 seconds to orbit the Earth. It does so traveling at 2,288 miles per hour. However, a lunar month is 29 days, 12 hours, 43 minutes, 11.6 seconds.

The moon is roughly 4.5 billion years old.

The moon is roughly 250,000 miles from the Earth. At the speed of light, you can get there in 1.52 seconds. Taking a rocket ship, you could get there in 13 hours. By an automobile, assuming that were even possible, it would take roughly 130 days, assuming you drive a fraction over 80 miles per hour non-stop.

The moon is 2000 miles (3476 Km) in diameter. That means the circumference is over 6283 miles. That is about 1/4 the size of the Earth.

There is no atmosphere on the moon. So there is no wind or other weather. Because of that, the footprints left by the astronauts from the Apollo mission will still be there for at least 10 million years. There is some water on the moon, according to the 2009 discovery.

The moon's gravity is 1/6 that of the Earths. So while the astronauts wore 180 pound space suits, they only felt like 30 pounds.

The moon has no magnetic field.

Roughly every 3 years, there is what is called a "blue moon." That doesn't refer to the color. It may be a corruption of an old word (bellue) meaning "traitor" or "deceiver." Depending on the definition you use, the second moon in the same month would be called a blue moon. Using another popular definition, it would be the 3rd moon in a season in a season containing 4 moons. The reason it was once called a traitor or a deceiver has to do with the tradition of determining when Easter occurs in a given year. The last moon in March would be used to determine the date of Easter. But if there is two moons, the faithful might celebrate on the wrong date, and as superstitious as the people were then, they blamed Satan for this.

According to a 1988 survey, 13% of those surveyed said they believed the moon was made out of cheese.

Alan Sheppard allegedly hit a Golf ball 2400 feet while on the moon. That is close to a half mile.