What is the best sport (considering the gravitational diference) for the moon?
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Hm, let's see...\n\nI would think any sports involving throwing would be out.  All objects weigh only 1/6 what you would on Earth.  That means it takes objects nearly 2.5 times longer to fall.  Say you could hit a homerun at 400 feet.  You'd have to build a baseball stadium at least 1,000 feet.  Your outfielders would have to be *way* out there.  And if you can toss a football for 50 yards on Earth, it would travel more than 150 yards on the Moon.  Try running that far to catch that Hail Mary...  \n\nYou might think for this same reason that golf would be a good sport to play.  You should be able to drive the ball for at least a mile, right?  Well apparently Alan Shepard tried this in 1971 on Apollo 14 and only got around 300 yards -- not even a quarter of a mile.\n\nBut it gets better...\n\nEven with gravity out of the picture, the lack of atmorphere makes it equally difficult.  You couldn't play Frisbee.  Throwing a boomerang would be useless.  No flying of kites.  And even calling the lack of atmosphere an unimportant factor, the surface temperature of the Moon during the day is 253° Fahrenheit -- so your equipment would melt.  And the surface temperature at night is -387° Fahrenheit -- which is about 300° colder than Antartica during the summer months -- so night games are out of the question.\n\nMy answer to the best sport?  Stay inside and play chess.
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its symbol is a crescent (). The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g. aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in approximately 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). The Moon is the Solar System's fifth largest moon, both by diameter and mass, ranking behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.\n\nThe Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned vehicles, or space probes: The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1 in 1959. The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, also in 1959. The first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966. The first (unmanned) vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10 in 1966.\n\nThe United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon: The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, and the first people to land and walk on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. The unsuccessful Soviet manned Moon project was abandoned in 1974. The Moon is the only celestial body other than the Earth upon which humans have set foot.\n\nThe two sides of the Moon\nThe Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps nearly the same face turned toward Earth at all times. Small variations resulting from the finite eccentricity of the lunar orbit, termed optical librations, allow up to about 59% of the lunar surface to be visible from Earth. The side of the Moon that faces Earth is called the near side, and the opposite side is called the far side. The far side should not be confused with the dark side, as the unilluminated hemisphere only corresponds to the far side during full moon. In fact, the far side receives (on average) slightly more sunlight than the near side due to lunar eclipse. Spacecraft are cut off from direct radio communication with Earth when behind the Moon due to line-of-sight propagation. One distinguishing feature of the far side is its almost complete lack of maria (singular: mare), which are the dark albedo features.\n\nOrbit and relationship to Earth\n \nA scale model of Earth and the MoonMain articles: The Moon's orbit and Earth and Moon\nSee also: Libration \nThe Moon makes a complete orbit about the Earth approximately once every 27.3 days. It is at present in its 4th quarter, illuminated by ca. -155% . Unlike most satellites of other planets, the Moon orbits near the ecliptic and not the Earth's equatorial plane.\n\nThe Earth and Moon have many physical effects upon one another, including the tides. Most of the tidal effects seen on the Earth are caused by the Moon's gravitational pull, with a smaller contribution from the Sun. Tidal effects result in an increase of the mean Earth-Moon distance, over long periods of time, of about 4 meters per century. As a result of the conservation of angular momentum, the increasing semimajor axis of the Moon is accompanied by a gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe Earth-Moon system may be considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system.[3] This is due
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Anything with mass has gravity - the bigger the mass the bigger the gravity.  The moon which is quite small compared to earth has much less gravity - look at the footage of the sapcewalks.  Larger planets such as Jupiter or Saturn have much higher gravity - probably so much so that you'd be crushed under your own weight.\n\nThe moon's gravity affects the earth (most noticably in the tides) and to a much lesser extent the other bodies in the solar system affects the earth.
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The moon must do because it has an "oo" in the middle.  Anyone that can't see the science behind this might not be prepared to worship you as Pope but there are plenty that will if you say so your eminencey.\n\nOmindumb for Pope!\nOmindumb for Pope!\nOmindumb for Pope!
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Land on the moon or anything, I dun know!
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Why Not?\nBecause we can.\nBecause the moon is more interesting than tv.\nLife is about challenge,\nThought is about questions.\nBecause Neil Armstrong woke up one morning put his Nikes on and just did it.
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land parcels on the moon
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I think it'll be a while yet before we see people being able to burrow and live under the moon's surface. Me personally? Well, I'd rather live *in* Uranus. Such a lovely place to visit when the weather is right.
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My gluteus maximus!  I could really "Moon" people then!
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http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/Academy/UNIVERSE/MOON.HTML\nhttp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/luna.html\nhttp://www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm\nhttp://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/
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towards the moon or towards the sun?\n\nand i think its centripetal force. (or however you spell it)\ngood luck.
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The moon is gorgeous. I love the moon. It is so mystical and romantic.
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capture the flag\n \nor any basic sports were you only need a ball...like soccer
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golf- its a relaxing sport and you get a great tan if its a sunny day!\n\nbasketball- high energy, fast paced, the pressure is always fun  i love scoring mad points on opponets and playing tight defense!\n\nsoftball- sliding is sweeeeeet! throwing out base runners or catching a diving fly ball is awesome and hitting a home run or rbi is cool too
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the sun and or the moon
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Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rocks
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natural sattelite :the moon\nbiggest body and gravity :the sun, it keeps all the planets in out solar system\n\n~Brendon