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• What are the major features of the moon's surface?Rock • How much larger is the earth in diameter than the moon?3.68 times bigger than the moon • The earth has a much larger mass than the moon. How many moons would it take to equal the mass of Earth?81.3 • The moon's surface has been pelted by asteroids, comets and meteorites which have caused craters. How have these space particles been allowed to bombard the moon's surface?it has mad the moon have craters • What is a Blue Moon?a blue moon comes out when we have had 2 full moons in one month • ◦ What is the current phase of the moon? • When will the moon be full next?the 15 of march • What phase of the moon will/did occur on your birthday in 2010? quoter moon

__**BLUE MOON**__ When two full moons occur in a single month, the second full moon is called a "Blue Moon." Another definition of the blue moon is the third full moon that occurs in a season of the year which has four full moons (usually each season has only three full moons.)

**CRESCENT MOON** A crescent moon is part way between a half moon and a new moon, or between a new moon and a half moon.

**FULL MOON** A full moon appears as an entire circle in the sky. The full moon is given different names, depending on when it appears. For example, the "Harvest moon" is the full moon that appears nearest to the [|__Autumnal Equinox__], occurring in late September or early October. Some other full moon names (by month) include: **January** Moon After Yule, Wolf Moon, or Old Moon **February** Snow Moon or Hunger Moon **March** Sap Moon, Crow Moon, or Lenten Moon **April** Grass Moon or Egg Moon **May** Milk Moon or Planting Moon **June** Rose Moon, Flower Moon, or Strawberry Moon **July** Thunder Moon or Hay Moon **August** Grain Moon or Green Corn Moon **September** Fruit Moon or Harvest Moon **October** Harvest Moon or Hunter's Moon **November** Hunter's Moon, Frosty Moon, or Beaver Moon **December** Moon Before Yule or Long Night Moon. ||

**GIBBOUS MOON** A gibbous moon is between a full moon and a half moon, or between a half moon and a full moon. || **HALF MOON** A half moon looks like half a circle. It is sometimes called a quarter moon (this Moon has completed one quarter of an orbit around the Earth from either the full or new position and one quarter of the moon's surface is visible from Earth). || **NEW MOON** The new moon is the phase of the moon when the moon is not visible from Earth, because the side of the moon that is facing us is not being lit by the sun. || **Moonrise from Earth** : The moon rises and sets every day, appearing on the horizon just like the [|__sun__]. The time depends on the phase of the moon. It rises about 30 to 70 minutes later each day than the previous day, so the moon is out during daytime as often is it's out at night. At the time of the new moon, the moon rises at about the same time the sun rises, and it sets at about the same time the sun sets. As the days go by (as it waxes to become a crescent moon, a half moon, and a gibbous moon, on the way to a full moon), the moon rises during daytime (after the sun rises), rising later each day, and it sets at nighttime, setting later and later each night. At the full moon, the times of moonrise and moonset have advanced so that the moon rises about the same time the sun sets, and the moon sets at about the same time the sun rises. As the moon wanes (becoming a half moon and a crescent moon, on the way to a new moon), the moon rises during the night, after sunset, rising later each night. It then sets in the daytime, after the sun rises. Eventually, the moon rises so late at night that it's actually rising around sunrise, and it's setting around sunset. That's when it's a new moon once again.
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