Moon Facts

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

v  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.

v  The Sea of tranquility is found on the moon.

v  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.

v  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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

v  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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

v  The moon weighs 81 billion tons.