does any one know why the moon is round with holes in it?
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It's round because it has enough gravity to make it round, the force of gravity crushing away irregularities until a round shape is achieved. There's actually a limit in astronomy, anything with more mass then a certain amount will as a rule be round.\n\nAs for the holes, I assume you mean the craters. They are there because we're basically living in a shooting gallery of asteriods, comets, and meteors. On the moon there are no erosive forces so when one hits it the impact crater remains.
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Of course it is, silly. Just zoom in with the website I gave you and Google Maps will enlighten you.\n\nSeriously? Of course it isn't. :P That's what people blame their farts on. "Oh, that moon is rotting again!"
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thats a deep question today.\n\nTicker tape to the moon is a clue ;) to a  wide part of it
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It's due to gravity. \nThe Moon Tide\nThe earth and the moon are two great masses that have a significant gravitational pull on each other. This is what keeps the moon in orbit around the earth, and it is also what causes tides to occur in the ocean. Picture the earth with a uniform level of water all around it.  The moon’s gravity pulls on the earth, and pulls the water towards it. The water moves up into a slight bulge on the side of the earth that faces the moon. At the same time, there is a force pulling water out in the opposite direction of the moon.\n\nCheck this link.\n\n\nIt will answer all your questions.\n http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/tides/tides.html
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The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun AND 400 times closer. Why? I don't think there is any real reason, we are just lucky.
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as you know to us it looks very big, because we are not that close to moon.  if you have not found by doing research on actually how big the moon look, then, "how can we answer that?"  the best that i can tell you is contact someone from the space camp that has study the moon....that's a good question.  do you own a telescope?
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What confuses you about the moon? Most planets have them. Ours is old, lifeless, has a high reflectivity, and rotates once for every revolution (so we always see the same side). Why are you confused?
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if any object following a straight or whatever path was to be attracted by some other larger body and put into and orbit then thru mathematical equations the orbit will always be elliptical(considering variable decceleration and velocity) that's why there is a doubt that moon was just a passing object that earth caught up..(coz it's orbit is circular and that it perfectly covers up the sun during eclipses....search for anomalies of the moon on google) so the orbit cannot be circular unless u "put" an object specifically into that shaped path...\n\nregards...\npretty rough explaination ..sorry cud not include the equations :)\n\nvivek
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they found out it rung like a bell for over an hour when they dropped part of the module on it making them suspect that it is a hollow moon.\n\nsome think it's artificial, possibly constructed by some alien race and their base is inside. they monitor us from there...
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It has to do with refraction due to different densities of air-in cooler climates, there tends to be much warmer air near the surface, with colder air in higher altitudes, plus the colder air is much more dense, so acts like a magnifying lense- The very largest moon-views are always seen close to the horizon because of this.
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As the Moon moves along its orbit around the Earth its hemisphere toward the sun is fully illuminated.\n\nBut from the Earth we see only the hemisphere that is turned toward us.\n\nThat is, we are not seeing that hemisphere which is fully illuminated by the Sun.\n\nThat is why we see different shapes which are called phases of the moon.\n\nIn new moon day, the moon is in between Sun and Earth, and the moon’s non illuminated hemisphere is toward Earth and in the back ground of Sun’s bright light, the moon is invisible.\n\nWhen Moon is at 90 degree from the Sun, half of the illuminated hemisphere of Moon is visible from Earth. \n \nWhen Moon is at 180 degree from the Sun, full of the illuminated hemisphere of Moon is visible from Earth. We call it as Full Moon.
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what? I don't think the moon appears stationary since it travels across the sky and goes through phases.\nWhat?
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i would generally say no its not, as the atmosphere is only between 5 adn 10 miles high, the moon is considerably further away than this.\n\ncant explainy why its like this has something to do with the creation of the solar system the mood being far away and such.
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The tidal forces between the Earth and the Moon slowed the Moon's rotation until it became locked with its orbit around the Earth. The Moon therefore always keeps the same side of its surface facing the Earth. As the Moon orbits the Earth, the entire half facing the sun is illuminated, but the amount of this lighted half that we can see changes. Thus the Moon seems to change shape or phase. The far side of the Moon is lighted part of the time and dark part of the time as well; hence it is incorrect to refer to it as the "dark side of the Moon" (sorry, Pink Floyd).\n\nFor a picture of what the far side of the moon looks like check\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/9810/farside_apollo16.jpg&imgrefurl=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981008.html&h=432&w=421&sz=41&hl=en&sig2=9NUu37Lghow0vp6Kt4utAw&start=3&tbnid=zr8LzmzCjXAnwM:&tbnh=126&tbnw=123&ei=y7hmRb_rDbXmwQGpmMHlAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfar%2Bside%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bmoon%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG
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It is not just round or oval. It is elliptical. One side is close to the sun and one side is closer to the Oort Cloud, or Kuiper Belt, or maybe the heliosphere, the end of the sun's influence to the galaxy.
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Our minds work in a way we can make faces in many this we see, in this case the moon. It is not a smiling face, those are craters that were made in a way that to us it seems as if the moon is smiling.
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No its because the atmosphere acts like a lense. When the moon is high in the sky, the atmosphere has little affect on what the moon looks like so it will be smaller, but as it gets closer and closer to the horizon, you will be looking through a lot more atmosphere, which is like a lense of a magnifying glass. Thats why when it is low in the sky, the moon is very huge looking.\n\nBy the way, just for future reference, all orbits are eliptical because a perfectly circular orbit is only theoretical, and would never occur in nature. However the moon's orbit is close enough to circular to not affect how big it looks compared to the affect the atmosphere does.