is the moon a satillite???
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Yes, the moon is a natural satellite of Earth.
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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.
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They aren't. My brother works at the Keck telescope in Hawai'i, which is run by NASA, and they looked at the moon recently to get some information about possible landing sites for the new missions. But there's not much call to look at the moon any more, since we can get much better pictures from sending spaceprobes there.
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Think rally hard. The moon has gravity just like the earth. Have you ever seen a flag on earth stand that straight? They had a metal pole across the top and the grainy video make it look as if it is fluttering.
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No.  The moon would alwayd be full if you were on the sun, because the sun's light illuminates the moon.  You would, howvere, be able to see the side of the moon that is never possible to see from the earth (which we incorrectly call "the dark side of the moon").
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The moon although is a sphere, but it is so far away that it appear a flat round disk. there is nothing strange about this and if people are not educated that moon is a spherical rock, they'd probably think it's a round flat disk.\n\nBut for me, I see it as a hole in the ceiling.
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With a sextent.  Taking a line of the moon when ever it can be seen.  ie early morning at night.  Satilites are also used.  If satilites are broken the sextent is the real true way.
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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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No and Yes.\n\nThe moon is orbiting the Earth more slowly than the Earth is rotating.  It falls behind a little every day.  About 56 minutes behind.  So if tonight the Moon rises over the mountains at 8:00pm, tomorrow it will rise over the mountains at 8:56pm.  (thats the No)\n\nIn pretty much the same place. (There's your Yes)
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There's the Man *in* the Moon, but not the Moon *in* the Earth.  So far, there is only one moon orbiting the Earth and its name is ... "Moon".
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Yes -- in fact you are living on one.  The earth and moon is quite unusual in being relatively the same size to earth other compared to other moons around other planets in the solar system.\n\nIn that respect you can consider the earth and moon as being twin planets.\n\nAs to how often this happens outside the solar system, you would probably have to wait a few years as we have only just started to be able to detect planets around nearby stars but currently have no real means of actually observing them.
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Its an illusion.  Its because the moon is closer to objects to which you can compare it.
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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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The European Space Agency's probe SMART-1 is currently in orbit around the moon -- so it is a moon of a moon.
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The moon has a side that always faces us! That's not always filled with light though. That's why we have phases of the moon.
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No.  But we see only the side that faces earth.\n\nHere's a good diagram that explains it better than I can...\n\n\nhttp://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/moon2.html
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Moon/Earth Comparison\nBulk parameters\n\n                                   Moon         Earth      Ratio (Moon/Earth)\nMass (1024 kg)                    0.07349       5.9736     0.0123    \nVolume (1010 km3)                 2.1958      108.321      0.0203\nEquatorial radius (km)           1738.1        6378.1    0.2725      \nPolar radius (km)                  1736.0        6356.8    0.2731\nVolumetric mean radius (km)        1737.1        6371.0    0.2727\nEllipticity (Flattening)          0.0012        0.00335    0.36    \nMean density (kg/m3)               3350          5515      0.607      \nSurface gravity (m/s2)            1.62          9.80       0.165    \nSurface acceleration (m/s2)       1.62          9.78       0.166    \nEscape velocity (km/s)            2.38         11.2        0.213    \nGM (x 106 km3/s2)                 0.0049        0.3986     0.0123 \nBond albedo                       0.11          0.306      0.360\nVisual geometric albedo           0.12          0.367      0.330    \nVisual magnitude V(1,0)          +0.21         -3.86          -\nSolar irradiance (W/m2)            1367.6        1367.6    1.000      \nBlack-body temperature (K)          274.5         254.3    1.079      \nTopographic range (km)               16            20      0.800      \nMoment of inertia (I/MR2)         0.394         0.3308     1.191\nJ2 (x 10-6)                     202.7        1082.63        0.187  \nRef The foll link