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Name: Moon
Age: 4.5 billion years old
Mass: 73'490'000'000'000'000 million kg
Shape: Egg-shaped
Family: Member of our solar system, satellite of earth
Active Relationships: Orbits around the earth
Distance from earth: 384'467 km (~364 397 km at perigee, ~406 731 km at apogee)
Traveling by car: 130 days
Traveling by rocket: 13 hours
Traveling by light speed: 1.52 sec
Diameter: 3476 km (1/4 of the Earth's)
Driving around by car: 4 days
Gravity acceleration: 1.62m/sec2 (1/6 of Earth's)
Revolution period: 27.3217 days
Mean Synodic period(new moon to new moon): 29.530588861 days
Mean orbital velocity: 1.023 km/sec
Category: Geography
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Easter is the first Sunday after the first Saturday after the first full moon after the equinox. (The equinox is quite often March 21, but can also occur on the March 20 or 22.)
Domain: Astronomy; Category: Moon
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