2012
Moon Digest
Aneida Williams and Hannah Gamberini Moon
Table of Contents Page 1 and 2: Phases of the moon
Page 3: Advertisement
Page 4: Facts about the moon
Page 5: Information about the moon
Page 6: Crossword
Phases of the moon New Moon
Waxing Crescent
The side of the moon facing the Earth is not illuminated. Additionally, the moon is up through out the day, and down through out the night. For these reasons we can not see the moon during this phase.
During this phase, part of the Moon is beginning to show. This lunar sliver can be seen each evening for a few minutes just after sunset. We say that the Moon is "waxing" because each night a little bit more is visible for a little bit longer.
First Quarter During first quarter, 1/2 of the moon is visible for the first half of the evening, and then goes down, leaving the sky very dark.
Waxing Gibbous
When most of the Moon is visible we say it is a Gibbous Moon. Observers can see all but a little sliver of the moon. During this phase, the Moon remains in the sky most of the night.
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Full Moon When we can observe the entire face of the moon, we call it a Full Moon. A full moon will rise just as the evening begins, and will set about the time morning is ushered in.
Waning Gibbous
Like the Waxing Gibbous Moon, during this phase, we can see all but a sliver of the Moon. The difference is that instead of seeing more of the Moon each night, we begin to see less and less of the Moon each night. This is what the word "waning" means.
Last Quarter During a Last Quarter Moon we can see exactly 1/2 of the Moon's lighted surface.
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Interesting facts The moon is not a planet, but a satellite of the Earth. The surface area of the moon is 14,658,000 square miles or 9.4 billion acres Only 59% of the moon's surface is visible from earth. The moon rotates at 10 miles per hour compared to the earth's rotation of 1000 miles per hour. When a month has two full moons, the second full moon is called a blue moon. Another definition of a blue moon is the third full moon in any season (quarter of year) containing 4 total full moons. From Earth, we always see the same side of the moon; the other side is always hidden. The dark spots we see on the moon that create the image of the man in the moon are actually craters filled with basalt, which is a very dense material. The moon is the only extraterrestrial body that has ever been visited by humans. It is also the only body that has had samples taken from it. The first space craft to send back pictures from the moon was Luna 3 (built by the Soviet Union) in October 1959. The moon has no global magnetic field. The moon is about 1/4 the size of the Earth.
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Information It’s now thought that a Mars-sized object collided with the Earth at an oblique angle. The core of the two planets merged together, and the outer crust and mantle sprayed outward into cloud of material orbiting the planet. Over time, this cloud of material collected together into what we now know as the Moon.
Composition: What is the Moon made of? Start by looking at its surface. This picture shows it very well. There are light areas and dark areas. The dark areas are called seas, but they do not contain water. The seas are flat regions, whereas the light areas are rugged and are higher on average. For this reason, they are also called highlands. Distance from earth to moon: The average distance between Earth and Moon is approximately 30 times Earth's diameter.
If you could fly to the Moon at a constant speed of 1000 kilometers per hour, which is the speed of a fast passenger jet, it would take sixteen days to get there. Apollo astronauts reached the Moon in less than four days even though they coasted "uphill" almost the entire distance. They got a fast start. The Sun happens to be 400 times the Moon's diameter, and 400 times as far away. That coincidence means the Sun and Moon appear to be the same size when viewed from Earth. A total solar eclipse, in which the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, blocks the bright light from the Sun's photosphere, allowing us to see the faint glow from the corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere. When the Moon is at apogee, it is 11% farther from Earth than it is at perigee. This is far enough that it cannot entirely block the bright light, so eclipses which occur near apogee are not total.
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