Moon

Moon

The Moon (Latin: luna) is the only natural satellite of the Earth, and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. It is the largest natural satellite of a planet in the Solar System relative to the size of its primary, having 27% the diameter and 60% the density of Earth, resulting in 1⁄81 its mass. The Moon is the second densest satellite after Io, a satellite of Jupiter.

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Famous quotes containing the word moon:

    “There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.”
    —William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)

    “Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
    Again again with its pointless sound
    When the moon finds them they are the color of everything”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)