Moon questions

On 17 September 2018, it was announced that Maezawa will be the first commercial passenger to attempt a flyby around the Moon. He will fly onboard a SpaceX Starship (formerly called BFR), which is currently in development. The flight is slated to take place no earlier than 2023 with a duration of nearly six days. He will take six to eight artists with him as a part of an art project he has created called #dearMoon.

Armalcolite is a titanium-rich mineral with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)Ti2O5. It was first found at Tranquility Base on the Moon in 1969 and is named for Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, the three Apollo 11 astronauts. Together with tranquillityite and pyroxferroite, it is one of three new minerals that were discovered on the Moon.

Mons Huygens is the Moon's tallest mountain (but not its highest point). It is about 5,500 m (18,000 ft) high and is located in the Montes Apenninus. The mountain was named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physician Christiaan Huygens, it was officially named by the IAU in 1961.

The transition from day to night is caused by the spinning of the Earth about its axis. The same occurs on the moon. However, the difference is that It takes 28.5 days for the moon to spin about its axis. So one moon-day is 28.5 Earth-days long!

A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year: either the third of four full moons in a season, or a second full moon in a month. Owing to the rarity of a blue moon, happens every two to three years, the term is used colloquially to mean a rare event, as in the phrase "once in a blue moon".

Mercury and Venus are the only planets in the solar system that do not have any moon.

The average distance between Earth and the Moon is 384,000 km. So the light overcomes it in just over a second.

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object in space other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found.

The fender extension on the Apollo 17 LRV broke when accidentally bumped by Eugene Cernan with a hammer handle. A replacement "fender" was made with some EVA maps, duct tape, and a pair of clamps from inside the Lunar Module that were nominally intended for the moveable overhead light.

Even though she was mostly self-taught, she made important contributions to two areas of astronomy, lunar nomenclature and variable stars. In 1916, she was one of the first four women admitted to the Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of her work.The work is titled "Named Lunar Formation" and is the official catalog of the names of our satellite.