The Moon is
Earth's only
natural satellite, and the
fifth largest moon in the
Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 km which is about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The Moon has a diameter of 3,474 km —slightly more than a quarter that of the Earth and a little bit smaller than the length across the United States. This means that the volume of the Moon is close to 1/50th that of Earth. The
gravitational pull at its surface is about 1/6th of Earth's. The Moon makes a complete
orbit around the Earth every 27.3 days, and the periodic variations in the geometry of the Earth–Moon–
Sun system are responsible for the
lunar phases that repeat every 29.5 days.
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