Don’t Do Anything Just Fly Round The Moon: Nacho Sotomayor

A Virtual Orbital Flight at height of 429 Km, over the Lunar Surface with Kurdistan Planetarium Music: Nacho Sotomayor Dedicated to my Sweet Friend; Rojda The Moon is Earth’s only natural satellite and is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. It is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet, a quarter the diameter of Earth and 1/81 its mass, and is the second densest satellite after Io. It is in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing the same face; the near side is marked with dark volcanic maria among the bright ancient crustal highlands and prominent impact craters. Despite being the brightest object in the sky after the Sun, its surface is actually very dark, with a similar reflectance to coal. Its prominence in the sky and its regular cycle of phases have since ancient times made the Moon an important cultural influence on language, the calendar, art and mythology. The Moon’s gravitational influence produces the ocean tides and the minute lengthening of the day. The Moon’s current orbital distance, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth, causes it to be the same size in the sky as the Sun allowing the Moon to cover the Sun precisely in total solar eclipses. Orbital characteristics of the MoonPerigee 363104 km (0.0024 AU) Apogee 405696 km (0.0027 AU) Semi-major axis 384399 km (0.00257 AU) Eccentricity 0.0549 Orbital period 27.321582 d (27 d 7 h 43.1 min) Synodic period 29.530589 d (29 d 12 h 44 min 2.9 …

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