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Top 5 Facts about the Moon


oh it’s beautiful isn’t it the moon
divine bonus fact in ancient Greece a
philosopher named annex a giris believed
the moon was a giant rock that reflected
the light of the Sun he was tried and
exiled for blasphemy welcome to
watchmojo.com down the coolest facts we
could find about the moon the Earth’s
little grey space buddy
if you did
number five the moon was created from a
violent explosion no not the big bang I
guess technically it was created from
that too but what we mean is that the
moon is actually created from pieces of
the earth that blew off in an explosion
the prevailing theory states that a
planetoid the size of Mars collided with
earth billions of years ago blowing off
pieces of the planet this actually left
the earth with two moons which
eventually collided leaving one nearly
spherical moon that’s right the moon
isn’t actually as round as it appears
it’s actually more like a slightly
deflated basketball the side facing
earth is slightly larger making it seem
bigger and rounder than it actually is
number four there is no link between the
moon and lunacy and also on that day
there is a full moon which governs the
four children of all princes of the
female gender there will always be that
one superstitious on to claims that a
full moon makes us all go a little nutty
but there is no and never has been a
link between the moon and insanity
in a meta-analysis entitled much ado
about the full moon researchers examined
37 studies to find a link between moon
cycles and various kinds of lunacy and
concluded that no significant link could
be found that said a 2013 study found
that lunar cycles do affect some heart
operations contradicting some earlier
findings the study found that acute
aortic dissections performed during full
moons are associated with shorter
hospital stays 10 days for surgeries
performed during the full moon phase vs.
14 days for those performed in other
phases there must be there must be
someone else finally another dog job no
one else alright it is a full moon
everybody is gone into labor look around
you there are not enough doctors there
are not enough nurses and there not
enough delivery rooms okay number three
the moon is slowly moving further away
from Earth it’s true by this time next
year the moon will only be a small speck
in the sky no it’s not that drastic but
still the moon moves away from our
friendly and welcoming orbit at a rate
of three point eight centimeters or one
and a half inches every year that means
that the moon was actually much closer
to us thousands of years ago and would
have appeared much larger in the night
sky Hey
look at the moon man the huge boom guys
we gotta do something tonight today the
moon is about a forty million miles from
Earth when it was formed it was only a
reach out and touch it fourteen thousand
miles away number two there’s water on
the moon
forget Mars there’s water on the moon
scientists have discovered that there is
frozen water located in permanently
shadowed craters and that there may in
fact be water located just beneath the
dusty surface they theorize that the
water may have blown in on SolarWinds or
was deposited by comments it’s estimated
that the moon holds 1.6 billion tons of
water ice at its poles and rare earth
elements below its surface moon Express
a california-based company is already
making plans to mine the moon and bring
some of its elements including cobalt
iron and platinum back to earth so I
think there’s gonna be massive resources
attainable from moon I think it’s one of
the best actually biggest business
opportunities in history
number one humans are going back to the
moon I’d like to dedicate the first step
of Apollo 17 those of us born after the
70s have never experienced the
excitement of humans traveling to the
moon no humans have left low Earth orbit
since 1972
however the creatively titled
exploration mission – plans to be the
first manned mission to the moon in
decades NASA plans to launch this
mission in 2023 the missions will be far
more complex than the Apollo lunar
program astronauts will orbit the moon
and hopefully fly by an asteroid that
was part of exploration mission ones
mission em2 will give NASA a chance to
test out its Orion shuttle the same
shuttle that will likely head to Mars in
20 years from now
so now what do you think of our friendly
little space neighbor do you think it’s
a good idea for us to go back for more
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