what is the moon made of?

Answer 1

Same stuff the earth is made out of! Exactly the same proportion of isotopes in each element! Because the moon is a shard of the early earth's collision with a Mars-sized body. The difference between the earth and moon is that the moon has a much smaller iron core. The moon has some water, too, but it is locked up in rocks the way water is locked up in concrete.

Answer 2

The important thing about the moon's composition (which I am repeating because I only see it on here once) is that it is made pretty much of the same stuff as the Earth's mantle and crust... there just isn't much of a core.

This fits into the large impact theory for the creation of the moon since when the body hit Earth it would fling off a lot of the lighter material, while any heavier material that happened to break away would fall back to the (more massive) Earth.

Answer 3

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin for moon), or Selene (Greek for moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its symbol is a crescent. The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g. aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).

The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in approximately 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). The Moon is the Solar System's fifth largest moon, both by diameter and mass, ranking behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.

The first man-made object to land on the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959; the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8, and the first people to land on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. It is the only celestial body other than the Earth upon which humans have set foot.

Composition
It is held that more than 4.5 billion years ago, the surface of the Moon was a liquid magma ocean. Scientists think that one component of lunar rocks, called KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, and phosphorus), represents the last chemical remnant of that magma ocean. KREEP is actually a composite of what scientists term incompatible elements: those that cannot fit into a crystal structure and thus were left behind, floating to the surface of the magma. For the researchers, KREEP is a convenient tracer, useful for reporting the story of the volcanic history of the lunar crust and chronicling the frequency of impacts by comets and other celestial bodies.

The lunar crust is composed of a variety of primary elements, including uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminium, and hydrogen, as determined by spectroscopy.

A complete global mapping of the Moon for the abundance of these elements has never been performed. However, some spacecraft have done so for portions of the Moon; Galileo did so when it flew by the Moon in 1992.[6] The overall composition of the Moon is believed to be similar to that of the upper parts of the Earth other than a depletion of volatile elements and of iron.

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Answer 4

It is held that more than 4.5 billion years ago, the surface of the Moon was a liquid magma ocean. Scientists think that one component of lunar rocks, called KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, and phosphorus), represents the last chemical remnant of that magma ocean. KREEP is actually a composite of what scientists term incompatible elements: those that cannot fit into a crystal structure and thus were left behind, floating to the surface of the magma. For the researchers, KREEP is a convenient tracer, useful for reporting the story of the volcanic history of the lunar crust and chronicling the frequency of impacts by comets and other celestial bodies.

The lunar crust is composed of a variety of primary elements, including uranium, thorium, potassium, oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, titanium, calcium, aluminium, and hydrogen, as determined by spectroscopy.

A complete global mapping of the Moon for the abundance of these elements has never been performed. However, some spacecraft have done so for portions of the Moon; Galileo did so when it flew by the Moon in 1992.[6] The overall composition of the Moon is believed to be similar to that of the upper parts of the Earth other than a depletion of volatile elements and of iron.

Answer 5

by atomic composition, the most abundant element on the Moon is oxygen. It composes 60% of the Moon's crust by weight, followed by 16-17% silicon,6-10% aluminum,4-6% calcium,3-6% magnesium,2-5% iron, and 1-2% titanium. The elements oxygen,silicon and aluminum are present on the Moon in amounts comparable to their existence in the crust of the Earth.

Answer 6

I guess it is made of rocks and fine dirt ,although do we really know it is a moon? Could be called something else one day,look at Uranus.maybe we are the moon and the moon is a planet..hmm.

Answer 7

One theory is that the earth in its beginnings was struck by an enormous meteorite travelling very fast.This caused a portion of the earth to be hurtled outward and being caught in the gravitational and outward thrust took up it's orbit from the earth.
This crash caused tidal waves and volcanic eruptions and dust storms darkening the atmosphere resulting in the ice ages.
It is the most plausible theory, but it suggests the moon is earthen.

Answer 8

Science states billions of years ago a huge asteroid hit the Earth and knock a piece off and the rock and minerals came together in space and formed the moon. So it's made of rock from Earth...... or so science says. Only God knows.... He created our universe.

Answer 9

Its just a huge peace of earth. What ever earth is make of thats what the moon is made of.

Answer 10

What isn't the moon made of?