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Sun and Moon

Sun and Moon. What we will know. Various facts about the Sun and the Moon. The Sun. The Sun’s surface is called the photosphere. The temperature of the photosphere is about 10,000° Fahrenheit. The temperature at the core of the Sun is about 27 million° Fahrenheit .

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Sun and Moon

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  1. Sun and Moon

  2. What we will know • Various facts about the Sun and the Moon

  3. The Sun • The Sun’s surface is called the photosphere. The temperature of the photosphere is about 10,000° Fahrenheit. • The temperature at the core of the Sun is about 27 million° Fahrenheit. • the Sun is made out of 92% hydrogen, 7% helium and the rest is other low number gasses

  4. More of the sun • The Sun’s diameter is about 870,000 miles wide. • The Sun is 109 times wider than Earth, and is 333,000 times heavier. Over one million Earths could fit inside the Sun

  5. The moon • The Moon is about 4.5 billion years old. It is theorized that a Mars sized body hit the newly formed earth blasted the material into Earth’s orbit creating the Moon. • The Moon is about 250,000 miles (384,400 kilometers) from Earth.

  6. More about the moon • The moon orbits Earth at an average speed of 2,288 miles per hour (3,683 kilometers per hour). • The Moon travels at different speeds during different parts of its orbit. It moves slowest when it is at furthest distance from Earth. The Moon moves fastest in its orbit when it is closest to Earth. • The Moon takes about 27 days (27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11.6 seconds) to go all the way around the Earth and return to its starting position.

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