What exactly is the moon?

Question

The definition says that it is a natural satilite. But I see it as a dead planet. So what is it ?

Answer 1

I believe the Earth was formed from a huge Comet type impact and the moon is one of the pieces made from the collision.

Together they give movement to the oceans and create the infinite energy that is required for existence.

Answer 2

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. The average center-to-center distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles), which is about 30 times the diameter of the Earth. The Moon has a diameter of 3,474 kilometres (2,159 miles)[1] — slightly more than a quarter that of the Earth. This means that the volume of the Moon is only 1/50th that of Earth. The gravitational pull at its surface is about a 1/6th of Earth's. The Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth every 27.3 days, and the periodic variations in the geometry of the Earth–Moon–Sun system are responsible for the lunar phases that repeat every 29.5 days. The gravitational attraction, and the centrifugal forces generated by the rotation of the Moon and Earth around a common axis, the barycentre, is largely responsible for the tides on Earth. The energy dissipated in generating tides is directly responsible for the reduction in potential energy in the Moon-Earth orbit around the barycentre, resulting in a 3.8 cm yearly increase in the distance between the two bodies.[2] The Moon will continue to move slowly away from the Earth until the tidal effects between the two are no longer of significance, whereupon the Moon's orbit will stabilize.

The Moon is the only celestial body that humans have travelled to and landed on. The first artificial object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 1, the first artificial object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, and the first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3, all in 1959. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 and the first unmanned vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10, both in 1966.[1] The US Apollo program has achieved the first (and only) manned missions to date, resulting in six landings between 1969 and 1972. Human exploration of the Moon ceased with the conclusion of the Apollo program, although as of 2007, several countries have announced plans to send either people or robotic spacecraft to the Moon. On 4 December 2006, NASA outlined plans for a permanent base on the Moon as part of preparation for a voyage to Mars. Construction of the base is scheduled to take about five years, with the first preliminary missions by 2020

Answer 3

The moon is a large ball object that orbits planets. We have one moon while man other planets have more than one. The moon doesn't produce it's own light so it reflects on the light of the Sun. No matter where the moon moves we can still see it. The planet that has the most moons right now is Jupiter with 63 moons......hope I helped..

Answer 4

Well the moon is the Earth's natural satallite which is therorized to have formed when a large chunk of rock slammed into the earth. then the earth's debiries collected to form the moon. But it is not necearily a dead planet cause planets do not die. But it can be a peice of the earth. It is also rich in various other metal elements which the earth does not hve much of.

Answer 5

It does not fit the definition of planet, since it doesn't directly orbit the Sun, but orbits the Earth instead. It was naturally made and orbits a planet, so that makes it a natural satillite.

Answer 6

It is a large mass which orbits the earth, nothing more.

It could have been captured by Earths gravitational field. It could be the result of an interplanetary object collidng with the earth. It could have been formed from the same cloud of matter which formed the Earth.

Answer 7

it is the largest satellite that is in free fall around the earth. It is responsible for tides. It is believed to have arisen from a collision from a planet in our solar system

Answer 8

natural satelite,it moves around in a fixed permanent orbit around another body in space.planets are fixed in space or have no orbits with bodies orbiting them.

Answer 9

Zoom all the way in using the slider in the top left corner. The answer should surprise you.
http://moon.google.com/

Answer 10

The moon is Luna.