Diameter: 3476km (2160 miles)
Average distance from Earth: 384,400 km (238,828 miles)
The moon rotates at exactly the same rate as it moves around the Earth: 29.5 Earth far. So the same face is always facing the Earth.
The volume of the moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific ocean.
Easter is the first sunday after the first saturday after the first full moon after the vernal (spring) equinox.
There have been just 12 men to walk on the lunar surface, they are:
Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin Jr. (Apollo 11, Michael Collins stayed behind in the orbiter). Charles Conrad Jr and Alan L. Bean. (Apollo 12, Richard F Gordon remained on the orbiter).Alan B. Shepard and Edgar D. Mitchell (Apollo 14, Stuart A Roosa remained on the orbiter).David R. Scott and James B. Irwin (Apollo 15, Alfred M. Worden remained on the orbiter). James W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. ( Apollo 16, Thomas K. Mattingly remained on the orbiter). Eugene A Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt (Apollo 17, Ronald E. Evans remained on the orbiter).
The first full moon in each month is given a name.
The first full moon of january is known as "Wolf Moon", february is "Ice Moon" or, "Snow Moon", the full moon of march is known as "Storm Moon" or, "Worm Moon", april, "Growing Moon" or, "Pink Moon", may, "Hare Moon", or "Flower Moon", june, "Mead Moon" or, "Strawberry Moon",The first full moon of july is, "Hay Moon" or, "Buck Moon", august is, "Corn Moon" or, "Sturgeon Moon", september is famously known as "Harvest Moon", october's is "Blood Moon" or, "Hunter's Moon", november is, "Snow Moon" or, "Beaver Moon" and december's full moon is known as, "Cold Moon".
There are thirty named maria or "seas" on the near side of the moon.below are their latin names and english translation in brackets:
Sinus Æstuum (The Bay of Heats)
Mare Australe (The Southern Sea)
Mare Cognitum (The Known Sea)
Mare Crisium (The Sea of Crises)
Palus Epidemiarum (The Marsh of Epidemics)
Mare Foecunditatis (The Sea of Fertility)
Mare Frigoris (The Sea of Cold)
Mare Humboldtianum (Humboldt's Sea)
Mare Humorum (The Sea of Humours)
Mare Imbrium (The Sea of Showers)
Mare Insularum (The Sea of Isles)
Sinus Iridum (The Bay of Rainbows)
Mare Marginis (The Marginal Sea)
Sinus Medii (The Central Bay)
Lacus Mortis (The Lake of Death)
Palus Nebularum (The Marsh of Mists)
Mare Nectaris (The Sea of Nectar)
Mare Nubium (The Sea of Clouds)
Mare Orientale (The Eastern Sea)
Oceanus Procellarum (The Ocean of Storms)
Palus Putredinis (The Marsh of Decay)
Sinus Roris (The Bay of Dews)
Mare Serenitatis (The Sea of Serenity)
Mare Smythii (Smyth's Sea)
Palus Somnii (The Marsh of Sleep)
Lacus Somniorum (The Lake of the Dreamers)
Mare Spumans (The Foaming Sea)
Mare Tranquillitatis (The Sea of Tranquillity)
Mare Undarum (The Sea of Waves)
Mare Vaporum (The Sea of Vapours)
