Moon......facts..............


1-A full day on the moon, from one sunrise to the next, lasts about 29.5 Earth days on average.
2-No man has been on the Moon in the last 41 years.
3-The moon is moving away from us by 3.78 cm (1.48 in) a year.
4-The original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing were erased and re-used by mistake.

5-Your mobile phone has more computing power than the computers used for the Apollo 11 moon landing.
6-It would take less than 6 months to get to the Moon by car at 60mph (95km/h).
7-The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
8-The Moon is not round, but egg shaped.

9-Our moon is bigger than Pluto and 1/4 the diameter of Earth.
10-Of the six flagsplanted on the moon,five of themare still standing.
11-If there are two full moons in the same month, the second one is called blue moon.
12-The American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.
13-Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.

14-Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: 10 years and $100 billion.
15-A 2013 survey found 7% of Americans believe the moon landing was a hoax.
16-There is high speed Internet on the moon: 19 MBPS.

17-If the earth didn't have the moon, our days would only be 6 hours long.

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