The moon is pretty darn cool, average temperature at night is -387˚ F.
Here are some cool quick-facts about the moon:
- It is the fifth largest satellite in the solar system and the largest relative to the body it orbits.
- The moon causes the ocean to have tides, and it also causes the earth to wobble.
- This is why your horoscope is wrong, I'm not sure if you know, but this was in the news cycle recently.
- Americans are the only people who have been to the moon.
- And when we got there we threw a bunch of junk around and stole some rocks.
- Over 380kg of lunar rocks, which is about 840 lbs of moon rocks.
- We Don't Really Know Where The Moon Came From!
- you're probably thinking that this isn't true.
- But it is!
- The current accepted theory as to where the moon came from is called the Giant Impact Hypothesis , but we're not really certain if this theory is correct.
- incidentally this is the name of a new band I'm forming, so nobody steal it.
- The Giant Impact Hypothesis explains the mechanics of the origin of the moon pretty well but it doesn't explain a couple of key points,
- Namely why isn't the earth covered in a Giant Magma Ocean (which is going to be the name of our first album)
- If the Earth was hit by a Mars sized object (as described in the above theory) the result would have been crazy to see. Imagine something coming from the sky and smacking into the Earth and bouncing off, and taking a huge chunk of the the planet with it! Things would be lifting off the ground INTO SPACE!
- That's crazy. Of course you'd be dead because at that time we think that the Earth's atmosphere was mostly straight up poison. Poison.
- Tom Hanks never went to the moon, but the guy he played in Apollo 13 did.
- Jim Lovell is one of the 24 people who have been to the moon.
- and he's one of three people who have been there twice.
- Look at that grin, that is the grin of a man who gets to one up every vacation story you will ever tell.
