Interesting Facts about MOON

~ The lunula is the half-moon shaped pale area at the bottom of finger nails.


~ The term "honeymoon" is derived from the Babylonians who declared mead, a honey-flavored wine, the official wedding drink, stipulating that the bride's parents be required to keep the groom supplied with the drink for the month following the wedding.

~ The Sea of tranquility is found on the moon.

~ The saying 'once in a blue moon ' refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month. The last two occurred in January & March 1999. The next one isn't until the end of 2001.

~ The moon actually has mirrors on it. They were left there by astronauts who wanted to bounce laser beams off them, so that the distance to the moon can be measured.

~ The Earths core is a ball of Iron-Nickel at 7,000 C and is 80% the size of the moon.

~ Moon was Buzz Aldines mother’s maiden name. (Buzz Aldine was the second man on the moon).

~ Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

~ Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, and is larger than the planets Mercury and Pluto.

~ It takes about 1.25 seconds for moonlight to reach the Earth.

~ If you pile up the cans of Yeo's products, you would be able to reach the moon.

~ If you fold a piece of A4 paper in half 44 times it will reach the moon.

~ All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakespearean characters.

~ A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

~ A manned rocket can reach the moon in less time than it used to take to travel the length of England by stagecoach.


~ A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).

~ 27% of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.


~ When the moon is directly over your head, you weigh slightly less.

~ The moon weighs 81 billion tons.

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Intersting Facts About SUN

~ Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

~ Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once
every 250 million years.

~ Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

~ On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.

~ No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the
sun moves.

~ Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun. (about 50 000º F)

~ It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if
you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago.

~ In Spit Bergen, Norway at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a
half months.

~ In Newport, Rhode Island it is illegal to smoke from a pipe after sunset.

~ In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.

~ If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be
aware of the fact.

~ For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.

~ Every eleven years the magnetic poles of the sun switch. This cycle is called"Solarmax".

~ Because of the speed at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more
than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

~ Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to
rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god,
Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes
started solely to round up sacrificial victims.


~ At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and
the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the
center.

~ At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature
of 10-20 million degrees Celsius.

~ All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.

~ An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000
candles.

~ Your fingernails can turn yellow from wearing nail polish and from the sun.

~ If the entire solar system were the size of a quarter, the sun would be visible only under a
microscope, and the nearest star would be 300 feet away.

~ The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day.

~ If the earth were the size of a quarter, the sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be
located a football field distance from the earth.

~ More than 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.

~ 99% of our solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

~ The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

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