The Almost Moon

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Parts of many craters, particularly the bottoms of many polar craters, [104] are permanently shadowed, these " craters of eternal darkness" have extremely low temperatures. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter measured the lowest summer temperatures in craters at the southern pole at 35K (−238°C; −397°F) [105] and just 26K (−247°C; −413°F) close to the winter solstice in the north polar crater Hermite. This is the coldest temperature in the Solar System ever measured by a spacecraft, colder even than the surface of Pluto. [103] On Earth, our view of the illuminated part of the Moon changes each night, depending on where the Moon is in its orbit, or path, around Earth. When we have a full view of the completely illuminated side of the Moon, that phase is known as a full moon. The Moon does not shine with its own light. It simply reflects light coming from the Sun. Why does it look like the Moon is changing shape? Waning Gibbous: The waning gibbous phase is between a full moon and a half moon. Waning means it is getting smaller.

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Scientists believe that the Moon formed early in the solar system’s history after Earth and an object about the size of Mars smashed into each other. The impact sent chunks of Earth and the impactor into space that were pulled together by gravity, creating the Moon. How do we study the Moon?

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While the giant-impact theory explains many lines of evidence, some questions are still unresolved, most of which involve the Moon's composition. [56] Models that have the Moon acquiring a significant amount of the proto-earth are more difficult to reconcile with geochemical data for the isotopes of zirconium, oxygen, silicon, and other elements. [57] Above a high resolution threshold for simulations, [ clarify] a study published in 2022 finds that giant impacts can immediately place a satellite with similar mass and iron content to the Moon into orbit far outside Earth's Roche limit. Even satellites that initially pass within the Roche limit can reliably and predictably survive, by being partially stripped and then torqued onto wider, stable orbits. [58] Natural development Artist's depiction of the Moon as it might have appeared in Earth's sky after the Late Heavy Bombardment around 4 billion years ago, when its orbit was half as close to Earth and it appeared 2.8 times larger than today. [59] The English adjective pertaining to the Moon is "lunar", derived from the Latin word for the Moon, lūna. Selenian / s ə l iː n i ə n/ [28] is an adjective used to describe the Moon as a world, rather than as a celestial object, [29] but its use is rare. It is derived from σελήνη selēnē, the Greek word for the Moon, and its cognate selenic was originally a rare synonym [30] but now nearly always refers to the chemical element selenium. [31] The element name selenium and the prefix seleno- (as in selenography, the study of the physical features of the Moon) come from this Greek word. [32] [33]

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Almost all maria are on the near side of the Moon, and cover 31% of the surface of the near side [68] compared with 2% of the far side. [120] This is likely due to a concentration of heat-producing elements under the crust on the near side, which would have caused the underlying mantle to heat up, partially melt, rise to the surface and erupt. [73] [121] [122] Most of the Moon's mare basalts erupted during the Imbrian period, 3.3–3.7billion years ago, though some being as young as 1.2billion years [62] and as old as 4.2billion years. [63] Old hardened lava flows of Mare Imbrium forming wrinkle ridges In The Almost Moon, what initially seems so grounded in relatable-to feelings turns out to be a kind of fantasy in its extremes: instead of mere dissatisfaction and divorce, the father's madness and suicide; instead of resentment and placing the mother in a hospice, murder - an acting out of improbable what-ifs that is less and less realistic, but disguisedly so. Almost every family does, in real life, have something crazy to it, but not this crazy - not craziness this various and psychotic. The Almost Moon is unrealistic, but it's leavened with realistic description, much as the previous novel's hard-to-swallow heaven is made semi-palatable by the ordinary community and family scrutinised from it. The impact would have released enough energy to liquefy both the ejecta and the Earth's crust, forming a magma ocean. The liquefied ejecta could have then re-accreted into the Earth–Moon system. [54] [55] The newly formed Moon would have had its own lunar magma ocean; its depth is estimated from about 500km (300 miles) to 1,737km (1,079 miles). [54] Ron Rash is renowned for his writing about Appalachia, but his latest book, The Caretaker, begins ... Following formation, the Moon has cooled and most of its atmosphere has been stripped. [61] The lunar surface has since been shaped by large impact events and many small ones, forming a landscape featuring craters of all ages.The Moon is a differentiated body that was initially in hydrostatic equilibrium but has since departed from this condition. [69] It has a geochemically distinct crust, mantle, and core. The Moon has a solid iron-rich inner core with a radius possibly as small as 240 kilometres (150mi) and a fluid outer core primarily made of liquid iron with a radius of roughly 300 kilometres (190mi). Around the core is a partially molten boundary layer with a radius of about 500 kilometres (310mi). [70] [71] This structure is thought to have developed through the fractional crystallization of a global magma ocean shortly after the Moon's formation 4.5billion years ago. [72] This article is about Earth's natural satellite. For moons in general, see Natural satellite. For other uses, see Moon (disambiguation). The Almost Moon,' by Alice Sebold -- New York Magazine Book Review - Nymag". New York Magazine . Retrieved 2020-09-28. The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. [20] [21] The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, [22] which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis "month" [23] (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb "measure" (of time). [24]

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Waxing Gibbous: The waxing gibbous phase is between a half moon and full moon. Waxing means it is getting bigger.At one point, she thinks of a book her daughter had recommended, nonfiction about a serial killer. She reads it in one night but demands the next day: "How can you read such things?" Sebold's second novel will give you more than most true crime books - an evoked world especially (she is very good on suburbs) - but not the inside information it promises. It's both a strength and a weakness that it's a one-night read.