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The moon is not half the size of the earth. the earth has a mass of 3.98 X 1024 kg, and the moon only has a mass of 7.34 X 1022 kg, which is only about 0.012300 Earth masses.
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What is the phase when you see half the moon or earth?
Half-moon Half-Earth
What is a half moon?
because the part of the earth that is having 'daytime' is blocking the sun from the moon. since the moon revolves around it can get a little bit of sun. What you see of the moon is how much sun light is hitting the moon.
What is the moon and size in relation to earth and actual size?
The moon is 1/4 the diameter of the Earth
Is mercury or the moon closer to earth's size?
Mercury is larger than the moon and so is closer in size to Earth than the moon is. It should be noted that Mercury is closer in size to the moon than it is to Earth.
Does thew moon have water?
No, the moon does not have any water due to the fact that its core is only one-fifth the size of its radius. In contrast, Earth's core is about half the size of the planet's radius. Furthermore, the moon's core is not molten, nor does the moon spin on its axis, it's tidally locked to Earth.
How are the size and mass of the moon different for that of the earth?
Size: The Moon has about 1/4 of the diameter of Earth. Mass: The Moon has about 1/81 of the mass of Earth.
How does the shadow of the earth on the moon have a straight line through it when its half full?
The shadow of the earth never falls on the moon when the moon is half full.
What is the current theory for the creation of the moon?
Back when the earth was young and relatively molten, a large object about half the size of the current moon, struck the earth and took a large section of the earth with it. The object combined with the pieces of earth that were broken off and began orbiting the earth. Hence, the moon.
What is the size difference of the earth and the moon?
In rough rounded figures . . . -- The moon's diameter is 27.3% the size of the Earth's diameter. -- That makes the moon's surface area 7.5% the size of Earth's surface area. -- And it makes the moon's volume 2% the size of the Earth's volume. -- The moon's mass is 1.23% the size of the Earth's mass. (When we notice that the moon has 2% of Earth's volume but only 1.23% its mass, we realize immediately that the moon's average density is only 60% of the Earth's average density.)
How much size is the moon from the earth?
Moon = 1/4 of Earth
How big is the earth to the moon?
The moon is about 1/4th the size of the Earth.
How is earths moon like earth?
Like the Earth, the Moon is a sphere which is always half illuminated by the Sun, but as the Moon orbits the Earth we get to see more or less of the illuminated half.
