# The Moon

Author: Farrington, Oliver C. (Oliver Cummings), 1864-1933

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69102

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Moon+Farrington&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Except for occasional comets and meteors, the Moon is the celestial body nearest the Earth. Its mean distance from the Earth is 237,640 miles, but as it moves in an elliptical orbit, it has at one point a remoteness of 253,263 miles and opposite to this one of 221,436 miles. The diameter of the Moon is about one-fourth that of the Earth, or 2,160 miles, and its volume is 1/49 that of the Earth. The mass of the Moon (volume multiplied by density) is 1/81 and the density ⅗ that of the Earth. The period of the Moon's revolution about the Earth is 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes and 11½ seconds. As its period of rotation on its axis is the same, only one side of the Moon is ever seen from the Ea...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moon-69102/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-moon-69102/chapters/2/index.md)