What Made the Craters on the Moon?
The short answer is asteroids, not the ones you think of when you think of movies such as Armageddon, or Deep Impact, but asteroids nonetheless. Of course this leads to many other questions,...
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The moon’s gravity actually pulls on the oceans and changes the tides, which helps us out quite a bit in various areas. More importantly by far the Moon is one of a few factors that has managed to...
View ArticleHow many days would it take the earth to travel around the sun if it traveled...
It takes twenty-eight days for the moon to travel around the earth. To calculate the speed the moon travels we must figure out what distance the moon travels in those 28 days, or the circumference of...
View ArticleWhy are there 365 days in a year?
“Full moons happen about every 29.53059 days.” Jim Moskowitz “The length of the tropical year is 365.24219 days.” Tom Cull “Originally, the Roman calendar had 12 months of 29 or 30 days” Dan Berger...
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