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Table of contents Page 1: Table of Contents. Page 2: Size, phases, and distance. Page 3: How it was formed, and what its formed of. Page 4: Orbit and effects on earth. Page 5: Timeline of missions. Unmanned. Page 6: Manned Missions. Page 7: Crossword. Page 8: Fun Facts about the moon.
Ethan Cooper, Devin Edgin. Period 3.
Size, Phases, and distance! Moon Size The moon is 3,475 kilometers or 2,160 miles in diameter.
Moon Phases There are eight moon phases. They are New Moon, New Crescent, First Quarter, New Gibbous, Full Moon, Old Gibbous, Last Quarter, and Old Crescent. It takes about 24 days for the phases to be fully complete, and for them to restart.
Moon Distance The average distance between the moon and earth is 384403 kilometers (238857 miles).
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How it was formed Scientists believe that the moon was created when another planetoid crashed into earth, and the debris collected and became the moon.
What is the moon made of? Like the Earth, the Moon has layers. The innermost layer is the lunar core. It only accounts for about 20% of the diameter of the Moon. Scientists think that the lunar core is made of metallic iron, with small amounts of sulfur and nickel. Astronomers know that the core of the Moon is probably at least partly molten. The top layer is called the crust. The crust of the Moon is composed mostly of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium, and aluminum. There are also trace elements like titanium, uranium, thorium, potassium and hydrogen.
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Orbit, and effect on earth Orbit The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth with respect to the fixed stars about every 27.3 days. However, since the Earth is moving in its orbit about the Sun at the same time, it takes slightly longer for the Moon to show the same phase to Earth, which is about 29.5 days.
Effect The moon affects the earth in two ways. Its position around the earth allows it to reflect the sun's light into our night. The moon's orbit around the earth lasts about a month giving us different levels of this light. The 'new moon' has little light to offer and the 'full moon' provides us with the best lighting. The second effect comes from the moon's gravitational pull on the earth. As the earth rotates, the moon's pull causes the world's bodies of water to experience 'high tides.' At a given time there are two high tides on earth.
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Time-Line of Missions Unmanned Missions Pioneer Program (1958-1978) Echo Project (1960-1964) Telstar (1962-63) Mariner program (1963-1973) Surveyor program (1966-1968) Voyager program (1977) Viking program (1975) Helios probes (1974-1976) Magellan probe (1989) Galileo probe (1989) Hubble Space Telescope (1990) Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, UARS (1991) Mars Global Surveyor (1996) Mars Pathfinder (1996) Mars Exploration Rovers (2003) New Horizons probe (2006) Mars Curiosity Rover (2011)
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Manned Vostok 1 (1961) Vostok 2 (1961) Mercury Friendship (1961) Mercury Aurora (1962) Vostok 6 (1963) Apollo 11 (1969) Apollo 13 (1970) Luna 17 (1970)
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Crossword
Across 1. The moon has big indentions on it called ________. 2. The moon affects the earth by causing low and _____ tides. 3. The moon orbits ____? 4. The moon moves in an ____. 5. The moon is covered in ____?
Down 6. Neil ________ was in the Apollo 11 mission. 7. Michael Jackson made a dance move called the moon ____. 8. Astronauts went to the moon in space __________. 9. The moon comes out at _______. 10. The moon is what distinct color?
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Fun Facts *The footprints left by astronauts are there to stay for thousands of years, as there is no wind on the moon. *Dr. Eugene Shoemakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ashes are on the moon. *When Alan Sheppard was on the moon, he hit a golf ball and drove it 2,400 feet, nearly one half a mile. *In a survey conducted in 1988, 13% thought the moon was made of cheese.