METEROIDS,SATELLITES, AND THE MOON

THE MOON

• The moon orbits around the Earth in 27.3 Earth days.
• The moon average distance from Earth is 384,400 miles away.
• The moon is 4.5 billion years old.
• The moon has no atmosphere or magnetic field.
• Rocks on the moon seem to be 3 billion years old.

METEORIODS

• Also know as falling stars
• Most meteoroids come from the asteroid belt
• They orbit the sun and planets along In the Milky Way
• 3 types of meteoroids , iron is the fastest at falling but the heaviest
• Meteoroids orbit the planets to stop them from crashing into others

SATELLITES

• Satellites telescopes gather a huge amount of data
• Satellites accumulates data and transmits it to Earth
• The satellites antenna helps find data and transmits it also
• If the position isn't right the satellite can lose contact with Earth
• The 3 most important satellites are weather, navigation, and astronomy

SOURCES

• Moonconnection.com
• Davin notes
• Demarious notes
• Obasi notes