The Moon is 384,400 km from the Earth and about 25 per cent of Earth’s size. The Moon orbits the Earth once every month and each orbit takes 27.3 days. It spins once on its axis every 720 hours.
The Moon is relatively close to the Earth and therefore seems much larger than the stars.
The Moon may have formed when a smaller, newly-formed planet collided with the Earth early on in the formation of the Solar System.
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The Moon’s gravity is 17 percent of the Earth’s, so astronauts in space suits can jump 4 m high.
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