The Almost Moon

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Its sources include outgassing and sputtering, a product of the bombardment of lunar soil by solar wind ions. The Moon's diameter is about 3,500km, more than a quarter of Earth's, with the face of the Moon comparable to the width of either Australia, [17] Europe or the US without Alaska. While Kim Hedges of the San Francisco Chronicle concludes that the novel is "simultaneously uncomfortable and absorbing".

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I wonder, instead, if her imaginative territory is just so small that we’ve already had the full tour. The Moon is a very slightly scalene ellipsoid due to tidal stretching, with its long axis displaced 30° from facing the Earth, due to gravitational anomalies from impact basins. The Moon has a solid iron-rich inner core with a radius possibly as small as 240 kilometres (150mi) and a fluid outer core primarily made of liquid iron with a radius of roughly 300 kilometres (190mi).millisieverts per day at about 400 km above Earth in orbit, 5-10 times more than during a trans-Atlantic flight, 200 times more than on Earth's surface. The full moon is highest in the sky during winter and lowest during summer (for each hemisphere respectively), with its altitude changing towards dark moon to the opposite. of Earth's, and a diameter that is roughly one-quarter of Earth's or with 3,474km (2,159mi) about as wide as Australia.

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This rotation– orbit ratio makes the Moon's orbital periods around Earth equal to its corresponding rotation periods. Due to its tilt, some parts of the Moon's surface never see sunlight, allowing water ice to survive in some of its craters.She divides the world into two classes - the normal, and those like herself and her parents who are "totally fucked".

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These names – Luna, Cynthia and Selene – are reflected in technical terms for lunar orbits such as apolune, pericynthion and selenocentric. In 1994, the bistatic radar experiment located on the Clementine spacecraft, indicated the existence of small, frozen pockets of water close to the surface. Beneath the finely comminuted regolith layer is the megaregolith, a layer of highly fractured bedrock many kilometers thick.This barycenter is 1,700km (1,100mi) (about a quarter of Earth's radius) beneath the Earth's surface. south of it and then back, just as on Earth the Sun moves from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn and back once every tropical year. Gravitational capture of a pre-formed Moon [42] depends on an unfeasibly extended atmosphere of Earth to dissipate the energy of the passing Moon. A fission of the Moon from Earth's crust through centrifugal force [40] would require too great an initial rotation rate of Earth. Because of the lack of atmosphere, temperatures of different areas vary particularly upon whether they are in sunlight or shadow, [102] making topographical details play a decisive role on local surface temperatures.