15 9
Creation Day 4 God reveals His "heavenly clocks" in the night and day sky
Some more interesting facts about the moon's orbit
• The Moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun. But, it is also 400 times closer to Earth than the Sun! This means that the Sun and the Moon have the same apparent size in our sky. This makes total solar eclipses possible. Earth is the only known planet that can experience eclipses where its Moon precisely covers the sun. • The Moon orbits Earth at a speed of 2,288 miles per hour . • So at that speed and at an average distance of 238,900 miles (384,000 km), it takes the Moon 27.322 days (27 days and 8 hours) to revolve around the Earth once. • The back of the moon is covered by craters from meteors and aster oi d s .
Why? It always faces space.
It is not protected by the Earth.
Made with FlippingBook Converter PDF to HTML5