Amazing Facts about the Natural Satellite: Moon
The only natural satellite of our planet earth is the Moon. Moon takes 27.3 days days to complete one revolution of the Earth.
Around 450 million years ago, a meteor called " Thaiah " collided with the earth, which is the reason due to which some part of the Earth was broken down which became a moon. These facts where put by the scientists in front of the world.
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1. The moon's weight is approximately 81,00,00,00,000 (81 billion) tons.
2. Only 12 people have gone to the moon. Since 1972, there not been an astronaut for the last 46 years on the moon.
3. The entire moon is 9 times more luminous than the half moon.
4. Moon is only 27% of the size of the earth. It is very much smaller as compared to earth.
5. If an individual weight is 70 kg on Earth then his/her weight on the moon will be 11.56 kg which is due to the gravity on the moon.
This also result in leaping of astronauts much more on the surface of the moon.
6. We all see moon everyday but we don't know one thing that we see is that we only see about 59% of Moon from Earth which means only 59% of Moon is visible from Earth.
7. The moon revolves in such a manner that till now we saw it's one part or one side. We have never seen moon's other part or side from earth although we can see the other part in the photos taken by the spacecrafts.
8. When all the Apollo spacecrafts came back to earth from the moon, it was not only the spacecrafts that came. The spacecrafts came with a total of 296 pieces of rock.
9. The fact is amazing that about 9 moons can be easily fit into the Earth and it's diameter is only the fourth part of the earth's diameter.
10. The foot mark of Neil Armstrong on the surface of moon when he landed is still there on the surface of the moon.
This is because on the moon there is no air which will erase that mark. It will remain there for very long time.
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11. Every year the moon is going away or say falling away from earth every year with 4 cm. If it continues then after 50 billion years the moon will complete one revolution of earth in 47 days instead of 27.3 days.
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13. During the 1950 s, the United States had planned to blow out the moon with an atom bomb.
14. In 181 satellites of the solar system the size of the moon is at number 5.
15. The credit for discovery of water on the moon goes to India. Before India many scientists believed that there would be water on the moon but none of them could find it.
16. Area of the Moon is very much equal to that of the area of Africa.
17. The transit of moon at night reaches -153 ° C while during the day it's 180 ° C.
18. NASA has provided the facility of WiFi connection on the moon which also set a world record. Also it's speed is 19 mbps which makes this fact more amazing.
19. Whenever there is a lunar eclipse on the earth then there will be solar eclipse occurring on the moon.
20. You will be surprised to know that there are many left-out stuffs from the earth on the moon. Those were left by the astronauts who got there. It includes stools, urine and also vomiting of the astronauts.
21. We should also know about the shape of the moon which is not round. It's shape is like the egg's shape.
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22. Due to the gravitational power of the moon, it has no atmosphere on it. The risk of presence of the meteorite remains constant due to the non-atmospheric absence of solar wind and meteorite on moon.
23. On the moon apart from those stuffs there is a man made debris of about 1,81,400 kilos lying on the surface of the moon. The debris consists of crashed artificial satellites with about more than 70 space shuttles.
Btw there is no point number 12. Did you get that at that time only?
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