✰Earths Moon✰

Earth's moon:

• Earth's moon is named Luna.
• The distance from the moon and the Earth is 238,900 miles.
• Earth's only natural satelite.
• Earth's nearest cosmic neighbor
• The moon was created from a rock the size of Mars slammed into Earth around 4.5 billion years ago.
• An Apollo 14 astrounaut took seeds with him to the moon and later the seeds were sprouted on Earth. They are called the moon trees, and we have more than 400 of them.
• Their may be another moon, they have found an astrounaut stuck in Earths gravitational grip.
• The moon has many craters from space rocks from 4.1 billion years ago and 3.8 billion years ago. These craters have not eroded because earthquakes and volcanoes do not destroy the surface as it does to Earth's surface. 
• The moon has no atmosphere like the Earth does.
• The moon is shaped like an egg.
• The moon may have a core, hot and molten, like Earth.
• The moon has moonquakes. (the moon shakes)
• Some people think the moon is more of a planet.
• Moons gravity pulls on the Earth's ocean.

Phases of the moon:

• New moon
• New crescent
• First quarter
• Waxing gibbous
• Full moon
• Waning gibbous
• Last quarter
• Old crescent

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