Moon

 The Moon
 **As you read this, the Moon is moving away from us.**

 
 *  **The Moon travels around the Earth in a circle called an orbit.**
 *  **It takes the Moon about 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes and 11.6 seconds to go all the way around the Earth, and back to where it started.**
 *  **The Moon orbits counter clockwise from west to east, it orbits Earth at a speed of 3, 683 km/ph, and the distance it travels around the Earth is 2, 290, 000 km.**


 *  **The Moon is about 4.5 billion years old.**
 *  **A cloud of gas and dust whirling around the Sun formed the Moon and Earth.**
 *  **The Moon’s sky is always black, even when it’s daytime, it has no air and no water at all. It’s a silent and empty place, made out of rock.**
 *  **The surface of the Moon has many things on it such as craters, lava plains, mountains and valleys.**



 
 *  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**The Moon is Earth’s closest neighbour at a distance of 384,000km away, but it used to only be 22, 530km away.**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 21px;"> **If you drove to the Moon in a car from earth, you would get there in 130 days. Travelling in a rocket 13 hours, and travelling by the light of speed 1.52 seconds.**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 21px;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 21px;">**On Earth the Moon causes the tides in the oceans. This happens, because, of the gravity force between the Earth and Moon**.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**At full Moon and new Moon, the Sun, Earth and Moon are lined up, producing the higher than normal tides (called spring tides, for the way they spring up). When the Moon is at first or last quarter, smaller neap tides form.**

Phases of the Moon