What's New Directions: Here are some facts about the moon. On your Science notebook, draw a smiley face () if you already know the fact, and a wow face () if this is new to you. Place your answers in your science notebook.

The sun may be the closest star to the Earth, but it is certainly not our closest neighbor in space. Here are some facts about the moon:

1. It is the natural satellite of the Earth. A satellite is an object in space that revolves around another object.

2 Our closest neighbor in space is the moon, a rocky ball about one-fourth size of the Earth.

3. It is the sixth-largest moon in the solar system.

4. The moon is one of the heavenly bodies reached by man. The first person to step on the Moon on July 21, 1969, was Neil Armstrong, an American astronaut.

5. Like Earth, the moon does not have the light of its own. The moon can be seen in the sky because it reflects lights from the sun.

6. The moon is the second brightest object in the sky next to the sun. Its name is Luna.

7. It is about 406,676 kilometers away from the Earth with a diameter of 3,476 kilometers, approximately 4 of the Earth's diameter, it is almost as large as Mercury.

8. It has no air and water.

9. It revolves around the Earth.

10. It makes one complete revolution every 27 days and 7 hours, and 43 minutes.

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