Read about the birth of Earth's moon, its composition, orbit, visible phases, and other interesting facts. Link to a virtual moon phase interactive which shows the current lunar phase and the phase on any date in the past or future.

Concepts

the moon

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Additional Tags

lunar orbit, lunar phase, moon phase, earth's satellite, moon

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information