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:

    The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
    The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
    The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; he shall preserve thy
    soul.
    The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXI (l. CXXI, 5–8)

    We are the music-makers,
    And we are the dreamers of dreams,
    Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
    And sitting by desolate streams;
    World-losers and world-forsakers,
    On whom the pale moon gleams:
    —Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy (1844–1881)

    No, they are dark and wrinkled and hairy,
    caves of the Moon . . .——— And when a
    dark humming fills us, a
    coldness towards life,
    we are too much women to
    own such unwomanliness.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)