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Based on a video by “Bright side”, Did you know the existence of the Moon possibly could have come from a clash. Scientists believe that it was formed by the debris of Earth and another object from space that was about the size of Mars, after they clashed into each other. There are a lot of moon facts to help educate you about the Moon.

The Moon isn't an ideal circle/sphere. It's shaped a bit like an egg because of earth's gravity. The Moon is the closest planet satellite to the sun, since Venus and Mercury are Closer to the sun, but they don't have satellites. With a diameter of 2,159 miles (ca. 3,475 km), the Moon is the 5th biggest satellite in our solar system, After Jupiter's satellites Ganymede, Callisto and Lo, and Saturn's titan.

We see solar eclipses quite often, but moon eclipses can only happen every hundred years. The Moon does look as if it's the same size as the Sun. The star is 400 times larger than the Moon, but surprisingly, it's also 400 times farther than us. That's why they seem to have the same dimension as seen from the Earth. Even if the moon looks really bright, it’s ability to reflect sunlight is smaller than the ability of earth. That's why in photos, they make the Moon brighter than Earth. It would take astonishingly about 300,000 Moons to produce as much light as there is in the afternoon. The moon is getting 1.5 inches farther from the earth each year.

The highest tides on Earth are normally seen at a full or new moon. There are big temperature fluctuations on the Moon. The temperature can rise from -279 F at night to +260 F in day/morning. One day on the moon is about 4 weeks on earth! It takes that amount of time for the Sun to get across the Lunar sky. The earth always sees one side of the Moon. The Earth's gravity makes the moon spin around slower. In 1959 people could finally see the other side of the Moon, thanks to a photo taken by a russian spacecraft called, “Luna 3”. The other side of the moon has way way more craters than the side the Earth sees.

To summarize, there are many moon facts that nobody really knows about because when i see people talk about the Moon it's either them saying how they like the moon or just well known facts about the Moon. So hopefully this would help you learn more facts about the moon.