| 1.The first human to reach the moon is Neil Armstrong, on July 20, 1969. He stepped on the moon with his left foot first. 2.The moon is on average 238,855.7 miles (384,401 kilometers) away from the Earth. 3.At perigee, the closest distance from the moon to the Earth, is 221,463 miles (356,334 kilometers) away. 4.At apogee, the farthest distance from the moon to the Earth, is 251,968 miles (405,503 kilometers) away. 5.A sidereal month on the moon is 27.321661 days, or 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes and 11.51 seconds (around 27 18/56). 6.The time between full moons (synodic month), is 29.53059 days, or 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes and 2.37 seconds (around 29 43/81). 7.One Earth year is 13.368 sidereal months. 8.One Earth year has 12.36826623 full moons (synodic months). 9.The moon rises everyday 52 minutes later than it did the previous day. 10.In one day the moon moved a 13 degree angle in proportion to the Earth. 11.It takes 1.28 seconds for the light on the moon to reach the Earth (so we never see the moon at the present). 12.The moon is 27.24% the size of the Earth. 13.The far side of the moon was first photographed by the space probe Lunik 3 in October of 1959. 14.The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles (3,476 kilometers). 15.The moon's surface gravity is 16% that of the Earth. 16.The moon is 0.01230002% as heavy as the Earth. 17.The gravity of the moon will pull an object 5.3 feet per second (1.62 meters per second). 18.The speed of the moon is 0.64 miles per second (1.023 kilometers per second). 19.The lunar year is 354.367 days. 20.The moon's albedo is 0.12%. |
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