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“a “germanic” word*
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(related to latin ‘mensis’ (/ greek ‘menas’) meaning ‘month’)
(ultimately from proto-indo-european ‘me’ meaning ‘measure’)
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words derived from “moon’ –>
“monday”
“month”
“menstrual”
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(the ‘latin’ word for moon is “luna”)
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(earth has ‘the moon’)
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-the moon is an [astronomical body] that orbits planet ‘earth’, being earth’s only permanent ‘natural satellite‘-
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(it is the 5th-largest natural satellite in the “solar system”, and the largest among ‘planetary satellites’ relative to the size of the planet that it orbits (aka its ‘primary’))
(following jupiter’s satellite “io”, the ‘moon’ is the 2nd-densest satellite among those whose ‘densities’ are known)
(‘the moon’ is thought to have formed about ‘4.51 billion years ago’, not long after ‘earth’)
(there are several hypotheses for its origin)
(the most widely accepted explanation is that the ‘moon’ formed from the debris left over after a giant impact between “earth” + a ‘mars-sized body’ called “theia”)
(‘the moon’ is in ‘synchronous rotation’ with ‘earth’, always showing the same face, with its near side marked by ‘dark volcanic maria’ that fill the spaces between the ‘bright ancient crustal highlands’ + the prominent ‘impact craters’)
(as seen from ‘the earth’, it is the ‘2nd-brightest regularly visible celestial object’ in earth’s sky, after ‘the sun’)
(its surface is actually dark, although compared to the ‘night sky’ it appears very bright, with a ‘reflectance’ just slightly higher than that of ‘worn asphalt’)
(its prominence in the sky and its ‘regular cycle of phases’ have made the ‘moon’ an influence since ‘ancient times’ on (‘language’ / ‘calendars’ / ‘art’ / ‘mythology’))
(the moon’s gravitational influence produces the ‘ocean tides’, ‘body tides’, and the ‘slight lengthening of the day’)
(the moon’s current orbital distance is 384,400 km (‘238,900 miles’) / ‘1.28 light-seconds’))
(this is about 30 times the diameter of ‘earth’, with its apparent size in the sky almost the same as that of the ‘sun’, resulting in the ‘moon’ covering the ‘sun’ nearly precisely in a ‘total solar eclipse’)
(this matching of ‘apparent visual size’ will not continue in the far future, because the moon’s distance from ‘earth is slowly increasing)
(the soviet union’s ‘luna programme’ was the first to reach the ‘moon’ with ‘uncrewed spacecraft’ in ‘1959’)
(the united states’ ‘NASA apollo program’ achieved the only ‘crewed missions’ to date, beginning with the ‘first crewed lunar orbiting mission’ by ‘apollo 8’ in ‘1968’, and 6 crewed lunar landings between ‘1969’ – ‘1972’, with the first being ‘apollo 11’)
(these missions returned ‘lunar rocks’ which have been used to develop a ‘geological understanding’ of the moon’s ‘origin’ / ‘internal structure’ / ‘later history’)
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(since the “apollo 17” mission in ‘1972’, ‘the moon’ has been visited only by ‘un-crewed spacecraft’)
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“jet!”
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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