Altitude of the Moon?
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What is meant by the moon's altitude is its height above the horizon and is measured in degrees. Then it is directly overhead, its altitude is said to be 90deg. As it is rising or setting it is said to have an altitude of zero deg.\n\nSo, to calculate the altitude you need to draw an imaginary line from the moon to the nearest point on the earth's horizon and then measure the angle between your position and the moon and your position and the point on the horizon.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 km (2,160 miles).
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the moon won't blow up.  it is geologically inactive.  that means that its just a dead rock up there orbiting the earth.
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The moon's orbit is eliptical.  Sometimes it is closer and sometimes it is further from the Earth. Here are those distances:\n\nPerigee: 363,300 km \nAverage: 384,400 km \nApogee: 405,500 km
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Here is a very simple and precise explanation with good illustrations\nhttp://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moonorange/
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles).
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You can see about 4 miles to a flat horizon on the Earth. So from one horizon to the other would be 8 miles. (On the Moon, it would only be 3 miles-- the horizon is only a mile and a half away.)
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Approximately 600 kilometers (372 miles)above the surface of the Earth
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sure, you just have to leave earth.  the acceleration on the moon is about 1.6 m/s^2.  so you'd need to go somewhere slightly larger than the moon, but not quite as large as the moon.  perhaps mars?  aha, on mars it is 3.7 m/s^2.  close enough?\n\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/MichaelRobbins.shtml\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/JahshirahRossi.shtml
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here is a picture\n\nhttp://www.godandscience.org/images/moonearth.jpg
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the source of heat on the lunar surface is sunlight.  the surface is heated directly by sunlight.  there is no atmosphere on the moon so it is not air temperature.\n\nhttp://www.asi.org/adb/m/03/05/average-temperatures.html
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TEMPERATURE\nThe temperature on the Moon ranges from daytime highs of about 130°C = 265°F to nighttime lows of about -110°C = -170°F \n\nATMOSPHERE\nThe moon has no atmosphere. On the moon, the sky is always appears dark, even on the bright side (because there is no atmosphere). Also, since sound waves travel through air, the moon is silent; there can be no sound transmission on the moon.
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The volume of a sphere is:\nVolume =4/3 pi radius^3 \n\nThe radius of the moon is around\n1740 km\n\nSo the volume of the moon would be:\n= 4/3 pi 1740^3\n= 22,066,647,300\n\nSo the moon is about:\n22 billion cu. kilometers, or\n22 quintillion cu. meters.\n\nDon't forget that volume is specified in cubic units.
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Yes. Assuming you're exactly between the Moon and the Earth (no angles), then you can figure out the weight.\n\nThe equation is F = G*(m1*m2)/r^2 where F is the force (in this case, weight), G is the gravitational constant (6.6742e-11), m1 and m2 are the masses of the objects, and r is the distance between the two objects.\n\nSo, let's first figure out the force just on Earth. Use the Earth's mass and your mass as the two objects, and for r, use the distance between the center of the earth and the surface. Using an average person's mass (75 kg, or ~165 lbs), I get a weight of 739.31 Newtons, or 166 pounds, which fits with the weight of the guy.\n\nNow do the same equation for the moon, using the mass of the moon, and for r, use the distance from the center of the moon to the Earth's surface. I get a value of 0.0024669 Newtons, or around 0.000556 pounds.\n\nTherefore, when the moon is directly above you, you only weigh 0.000556 pounds less than you would if the moon didn't exist. When the moon is closer on its orbit, it really won't make a difference. When the moon is closest to the Earth, you'll weigh 0.000062 pounds less than the average.\n\nSo, in short, the difference is very, very negligible.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi).
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The moon's orbit is elliptical, and the distance varies quite a bit (it varies from 225,745 mi. to 251,967 mi.)\n\nNow they actually know the distance to the moon to within a few inches. Apollo 11 astronauts left an array of corner mirrors on the moon. A corner mirror is three mirrors arranged like a corner of a box, all at right angles to each other. Such a mirror reflects light directly back toward the source of the light. Scientists shine a laser at the moon, and measure the time it takes to reflect back. They can measure this time to within a tiny fraction of a second. So they deduce the distance to the moon (at any given time) to within a few inches.
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Earth.  But one of them is not a true moon.  It's only a temporary one.