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BY: CARISSA

GATES

AND

MAGGIE

GLOVER

OUT OF THIS WORLD

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Table of Contents

Amazing moon facts……………………………………..pg3

How was the moon formed………………………….pg4

What is the moon made of…………………………..pg5

Can we reach the moon from here………………pg6

What “faces” does the moon have………………pg7

Ring around the rosie………………………………….pg8

How is the earth effected................................pg9

Missions to the moon………………………………….pg10

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we all know there was a man on the moon, but did

you know that there is one who stayed there?, a

Geological Surveyor, who educated the Apollo mission

astronauts about craters, never made it into space

himself, but it had always been one of his dreams. He

was rejected as an astronaut because of medical

problems.

In a survey conducted in 1988, 13% of those surveyed

believed that the moon is made of cheese.

The multi layer space suits worn by the astronauts to the moon weighed 180 pounds on earth, but

thirty pounds on the moon due to the lower gravity.

Did you know that you can go to a store such as Wal-Mart and

buy a shoe called a moon shoe? It helps you to just higher and

father than ever before!! You must get them

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Scientist found that the moon isn’t as old as the Earth and was formed approximately 30–50 million years after the Solar System based on what is called ‘the giant impact theory’.

Although no one can say for sure exactly how our moon came to be, there a few hypothesis and theories of which the ‘the giant impact theory’ is the most compelling and widely accepted. In this theory, the Earth had no moon until it was struck by a rogue planet which instantly vaporized. The impact is said to have created a cloud that reached roughly 13,700 miles or 22,000 kilometers high, where it condensed into solid particles that orbited the Earth. Over time they aggregated into larger moonlets, which eventually combined to form the moon we know today.

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Space researchers have used invisible X-rays, reflecting

off the surface of the moon, to find out what our nearest solar neighbor is made of and how it was formed.

The research, done at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center

for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., found oxygen,

magnesium, aluminum and silicon present over a large area of the Moon's surface.

The moonshine was analyzed using NASA's Chandra X-

ray Observatory, which can pick up light in the X-ray

range of wavelengths, unlike the Hubble telescope which can only see visible light.

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Since the moon's orbit is elliptical (oval-

shaped), its distance varies from about

221,463 miles (356,334

kilometers) at perigee

(closest approach to

Earth) to 251,968 miles

(405,503 kilometers) at

apogee (farthest point). The average

distance from the moon to the Earth is

238,857 miles (384,392

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The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth with

respect to the fixed stars about once every 27.3 days its

sidereal period). 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 (its synodic period). Unlike

most satellites of other planets, the Moon orbits nearer

the ecliptic plane than to the planet's equatorial plane.

The Moon's orbit is subtly perturbed by the Sun and

Earth in many small, complex and interacting ways. For

example, the plane of the Moon's orbital motion

gradually rotates, which affects other aspects of lunar

motion. These follow-on effects are mathematically

described by Cassini's laws

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The earth orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit and the moon orbits the earth with the same kind of

orbit. The earth orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit and the moon orbits the earth with the same kind of orbit. Looking down from the north pole, the earth spins in a counterclockwise direction on an imaginary line called its axis once every day. This accounts for the fact that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The earth’s axis is tilted with respect to the plane of its orbit at an angle of about 23.4 degrees. If we position ourselves high above the north pole, we would see that the earth orbits the sun in a counterclockwise motion, coming to the same position among the stars every 365.26 earth days. We would also see that the moon also orbits the earth in a counterclockwise motion. This is illustrated in the following example.

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Luna 1 - Jan 2, 1959 - Flyby

Pioneer 4 - Mar 3, 1959 - Flyby

Luna 2 - Sep 12, 1959 - Impact

Luna 3 - Oct 4, 1959 - Probe

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1961

Ranger 1 - Aug 23, 1961 - Attempted Test Flight

Ranger 2 - Nov 18, 1961 - Attempted Test Flight

1962

Ranger 3 - Jan 26, 1962 - Attempted Impact

Ranger 4 - Apr 23, 1962 - Impact

Ranger 5 - Oct 18, 1962 - Attempted Impact

1963

Luna 4 - Apr 2, 1963 - Flyby

1964

Ranger 6 - Jan 30, 1964 - Impact

Ranger 7 - Jul 28, 1964 - Impact

1965

Ranger 8 - Feb 17, 1965 - Impact

Ranger 9 - Mar 21, 1965 - Impact

Luna 5 - May 9, 1965 - Impact

Luna 6 - Jun 8, 1965 - Attempted Lander

Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) - Mar, 2013 - Lunar Orbiter

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By: Maggie Glover

Carrisa Gates