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The Moon
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(Click to see a
larger picture)
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| Earth’s
moon weighs 81,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons and has a |
| diameter
of 2,159 miles.
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One
day on the Moon is 708.70 hours long (about one month).
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The
average distance of the Moon from the Earth is 0.24
million miles.
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| However,
at times the Moon is only 226,000 miles from the Earth while |
| at other times it is actually 252,000 miles from the
Earth. |
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reason is that the orbit is not a perfect circle, but an
ellipse.
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Moon takes 27.30 days to orbit the Earth.
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| The
mean temperature on the Moon is -4 degrees fahrenheit.
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