How Did the Moon Get There?

By: Janessa R-J

Do you know how the moon got here? Here let me tell you how the moon got here was a giant rock smashed into Earth, the debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon. Pretty cool right, if you wanna learn more about the moon read the passage. Also did you know that the moon is slowly drifting away from earth. https://scitechdaily.com/new-theory-of-how-the-earth-and-moon-formed-based-on-reanalysis-of-nasa-moon-rocks/ Although the Moon shines bright in the night sky, it doesn’t produce its own light. We see the Moon because it reflects light from the Sun. Although the Moon shines bright in the night sky, it doesn’t produce its own light. We see the Moon because it reflects light from the Sun. We only ever see around 60% of the Moon’s surface from Earth! The part that faces Earth is known as the near side and the other, the far side. The moon's rocky mantle is about 825 miles (1,330 km) thick and made up of dense rocks rich in iron and magnesium. The Moon has been the Earth’s friend for almost 5 billion years but there's a lot more things about the Moon, like the moon has no atmosphere or only 12 people have actually been on the Moon in all mankind, pretty cool right. Did you actually know that the Moon is not a sphere it's actually the shape of a lemon. The Moon is actually really cool. I didn't know all these facts about the Moon like the Moon has its own earthquakes but they're actually called Moonquakes crazy right. Did you know the Moon is actually moving 3.8 cm away from earth every year it actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FullMoon2010.jpg started ten times closer to Earth then it is now. Neil Armstrong became the first man to step on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Despite the Moon's weak gravity it is strong enough to produce tides on Earth.

There’s an activity you can do to recreate Regolith, if you don't know what Regolith is it the name of the dust and dirt on the surface of another planet or moon and it is the layer of unconsolidated rocky material covering bedrock.

How to make Regolith:

You will need:

• A pan with deep sides.

• Two different types of crackers. For example, original graham crackers, chocolate graham crackers, cinnamon graham crackers, cheese crackers or saltine crackers.

• A rock from the garden about the size of your palm.

• A bowl of water.https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/food/6464777/cracker-test-taste-sweet-chewing-diet-genetics-carbohydrates/

Instructions:

1. Place two kinds of graham crackers into the bottom of your pan. Put them side by side with one of half of the pan being one kind of cracker and the other side being the other kind.

2. Drop your rock randomly on the crackers on both sides multiple times. Keep dropping until there are a lot of crumbs.

As you see the two different types of crackers are getting mixed up right? Asteroids hit into the moon and broke the larger rocks apart into dust. That dust got thrown by the impacts for some distance and settled back to the moon's surface sometime a far distance from the impact. Astronauts on the moon found that the dust in many areas was a mix of the dark and light colored rocks that make up the majority of the moon's surface. REGOLIT

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Regolith is pretty just dirt, dust, gravel, sand, and

mud (when wet). The Moon is unique in that it is the

only spherical satellite orbiting a terrestrial planet.

The brightest and largest object in our night sky,

the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis.The Moon is made of rock and metal just like the Earth and the other rocky planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars).

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/planetary_news/2018/07/23/moon-dust-potentially-hazardous-to-astronauts/

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