is the moon considered a dead star?

Answer 1

No, it's considered a satellite.

Answer 2

The Moon is a big satellite but besides a star, is just a tiny body. A satellite is a small body, without self light (and never had self light), that turn around a Planet. A planet is a body larger than most of the satellites (there are satellites like Titan or Ganymede, that are larger than Mercury).
The planets haven't self light.
The stars can be dead, but at least once they had self light. To be a star, a body have to be about 10 times more massive than the planet Jupiter.

The Sun (a small star) diameter is 400 the Moon's.

Answer 3

The moon is not a star,and never was,but its considered a satallite of the earth.Now replying to the answer that New Yorker left for you,seeing it seems she obviously has no knowlage of true astonomy,there is such a thing as a dead or "burned out" star.

A stars life is simple.It is born from gasses and dust as you would find in a nebula,the star forms a self contained Nuclear Fission power.It over many years grows and becomes swollen.This is why there are different types of stars.Beetlegeuse for example is a red super giant,and nearing the end of its life,other stars line Sirius are smaller and called white dwarves and are ready to die.

Once a star reaches a certain size,like a red super giant,they start to lose power and slowly lose that self contained nuclear fission.When this prossess happens,the star begins to "die".

As this happens the star begins to shrink and become more and more dense.Once the star reaches its most dense state,and is absent of nuclear fission,the star will actually become so dense it will collapse into itself or Implode...not explode,implode.

This is called a Supernova.And sometimes after the star implodes,Given the right conditions,If there are three or more solar masses near the imploded star,its own gravitational field witll actully be strong enough to create what is scientiffically known as a black hole.

So in a response to you and New Yorker and no offence meant to New Yorker,But I am an expert astronomer,No the moon is not a dead star,and yes a star can die.Check out this site to verify everything I have said.

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/workx/starlife/StarpageS_26M.html

Answer 4

The moon is not considered a star. Stars work by nuclear fusion, combining hydrogen atoms into helium atoms. This causes great amounts of energy to be given off. Making the sun Luminecant. The moon does not do this. The moon is a rock. Not a giant ball of gas.

Answer 5

The moon is acuattly made from earth.
WHAT thats what i said.
The rocks on the moon are are basalts, similar to the kind of volcanic rock found on Earth. The lunar basalts are rich in iron and magnesium, and they also contain glassy substances that have showed sighns of rapid cooling.When the earth was still cooling metors were hiitting the earth all over.. The moon was created when an object the size of Mars crashed into Earth less than 100 million years after the Sun was born.The shock of the impact striped material from the outer layers of Earth and the impacting object caused lava from in side the earth to explode into space.mostly rocky stuff that's largely bereft of iron -- begins to orbit the Earth. About half of this eventually becomes the Moon.Some of the stripped material is heated so fantastically that it vaporized and expanded into the areas all around space like a big vacum. The rest is flung into orbit, all pretty much along a plane that mimics the path of the incoming object/ over time the molten ball orbiting around earth cooled and became the moon. Its pretty cool wondering when we go to the moon, are we standing on part of earth?
pretty coool huh!

Answer 6

No. No stars actually orbit the Earth, and the Moon orbits the Earth, so... the moon is not a star at all, let alone a dead one. Now, if you asked if it was a PART of a dead star, I might have said yes...

Answer 7

NO NO NO NO NO NO and Definitley NOT! The moon is considered to be a chunk that came out of the earth when it was hit by an meteor. Stars that die explode and either become, commonly, white dwarfs. or they can explode into a supernova and eventually become black holes or shrink down to white dwarfs. But remember the moon is no where near a dead star. ( remember stars are gaseous and will never become compleatly solid (unless they are zillions of years old but our solar system is no where near that old))!

Answer 8

The Moon was never a star, and never will be one, so NO, it is NOT considered a dead star. But someday, billions of years from now, perhaps in 10 billion years, the Sun will be what's considered a 'black dwarf' or, . . .a DEAD star!!!

Answer 9

No. Dead stars explode in a huge explosion called a supernova, and then contract into a black hole or white dwarf. Obviously, that hasn't happened. It also doesn't shine with its own light, a requirement for a star. It only appears bright because of the light reflecting off it from the sun.

Answer 10

The Atlantic Ocean averages two miles deep, the Pacific Ocean averages three miles deep. The ocean basins were excavated by collision early in the Earth's history. The missing stuff is the moon.

Composition of moon materials returned by Apollo astronauts confirms absence of mantle minerals or mineral differentiation by weathering, tectonics, or vulcanism .

Answer 11

Nope.

If a star dies it becomes a black hole. The moon is a mass orbiting around earth, some scientists theorize that it could be a piece of earth that broke off.