can you describe the three main features of the moon?
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The crack and the two cheeks?\n\n\nSorry... I HAD to....
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go to http://moon.google.com and zoom in all the way.  you'll see what our moon is made of.
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It is the shadow of the Earth or rather, the part you see is the part that is not in the shadow of the Earth.\n\nThe shape the moon appears depends on its position relative to the Earth and the Sun. Depending on the timing, the shadow the Earth casts on the moon will change.\n\nSince the orbits of the moon and earth are constant, astronomers thousands of years ago have been able to predict the shape of the moon depending on the date.
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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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Galileo's sketches of the Moon.\n\nHere are Galileo's drawings of the jagged surface of the moon.  His telescopic observations convinced him that the moon could not be a perfect, crystalline sphere.  (In the Greek scientific tradition, everything from the moon on out is made of a special, fifth element, whose natural motion is in a circle.  Everything below the moon's orbit is made of the four elements earth, fire, air, and water. \n\nhttp://unr.edu/homepage/nickles/wthonors/galileo.htm
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It looks like that because of the refraction of light through moisture in the atmosphere. What you are seeing is really just water in our atmosphere difusing the sunlight reflected by the moon.
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A satellite is the moon of a planet.
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Here's information from NASA.\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html\n\nHere's the wikipedia entry,\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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Because the moon reflects light from the sun.
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1. earth's tilt\n2. earth rotation\n3. earth revolution
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The moon is made of rocks with a high mineral content, including rhyolite.  The combination of materials absorbs all colors of light relatively equally, reflecting a combination of colors that is translated by our eyes as gray.
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The moon is basically a great big lump of dull coloured rock that floats around quarter of a million miles from us.  Just like earth, it's illuminated by the sun so what you're seeing is reflected sunlight.\n\nIt can appear as different colours due to the atmosphere here on earth.\n\nWhen the moon is up in the sky you're looking at it through a thin layer of atmosphere but when it's low on the horizon you're looking through a greater amount of atmosphere.\n\nThe way that our atmosphere breaks up sunlight into differnt colours (Rayleigh Scattering) affects the colour that the moon appears to be.  So too can particles in the atmosphere - particularly dust and volcanic ash which often gives it a reddish tinge.
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There would still be some tides, but they would be much, much more calm, as the sun only has about 10% (if not less) of the effect on the waters that the moon does.  Other than that, probably not too much.  No more moonlight.
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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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If you go to the old farmers almanac you can find out what the phases and times of the moon were. \nHope this helps
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The sun, moon, planets, I guess this is about all I can think of!
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Distance to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n An Astronomy Tid-Bit about the mean and extreme distances to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n   Note:  Distance is from center to center of orbiting bodies.\n             Kilometers divided by 1.6093 = miles.       \n\n      Many sources, such as beginning astronomy textbooks, yearbooks, and atlases, give the distance to the moon as 384,400 kilometers (km), and  0.055 as the flattening or eccentricity of the moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth.\n\n      The moon travels around Earth in an elliptical orbit, with the Earth at one of the two focuses (foci) of the ellipse.  As a result the distance to the moon varies by quite large amounts.  Its close (or perigee) distance is 384,400 x (1- 0.055) = 363,258 km.  Its far (or apogee) distance is 384,400 x (1+0.055) = 405,542 km.  BUT these values turn out to be the mean or average values.  See the table below for actual distances.\n\n      The actual (computed) distances over 10 centuries, from  1500 to 2500, have been calculated by the Belgian astronomer, Jean Meeus, to be as small as 356,371 km or as large as 406,720 km./1 These values differ from the MEAN values by 6,887 km and 1,178 km respectively\n\n      An excellent and easy-to-use source for the moon's position and distance is "Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac" produced by the US Naval Observatory, Wash. DC and published by Willman-Bell, Inc., PO box 35025, Richmond, VA  232235.  The program called "MICA15" is on one CDRom for both IBM and MAC systems.  Included with the disk is an information and instruction book.\n\n      I used MICA15 to scan moon distances for the one  year, 2000, shown in TABLE 1.  The same source was used for the ten-year period, 1995 to 2005.  For this ten years,  the smallest distance (356,613.970 km) between Earth and Moon for this period occurred on November 4, 1998.  The largest occurred on March 14, 2002 when the moon was 406,706.975 km away.