The wonders of our solar system
By: Lillian Rice
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About
- The moon has an axis
- The moon is 384,000 km. away from earth
- At night on the moon the temperature is -155 degrees C
- The moon waxes and wanes
Moon Phases
- A waxing moon means to grow
- A waning moon means to shrink
- The way the moon rotates looks like it is shrinking but it is actually just the sun's light facing different parts of the moon
- A lunar month is from one new moon to the next new moon
solar system
- Planets are a big cloud of gas, dust, hydrogen, and helium
- The sun is the most important star there is
- Eight planets in our solar system are satellites of the sun