John Rasmussen age 12„ of Salt Lake 'City,

How, large is the moon?

The full moon looks no bigger than a dinner plate. this does not fool us, because we know that faraway things look smaller than they really are, The average distance between us and the moon is about 235,000 miles. The best way to get an idea of its size is to compare it with our world, around which it revolves,

Let’s compare diameters, the lines drawn from rim to rim straight through the centers of the two heavenly bodies. The earths diameter at the equator is about 7,926 miles. The moon's diameter is only just over a quarter of that. If the moon were a flat plate, it would be 2 000 miles from side to side l

The volume is the amount of space the ball‑shaped earth and the ball‑shaped moon take up in the sky. The volume of the earth is fifty times greater than that of the moon. As to weight, it would take 83 moons to weigh as much as the earth. The earth, it seems, is made of much heavier materials than is the moon.

When it comes to the pull of gravity exerted by the earth and the moon the earth far out pulls her satellite. Earth's gravity is five times as strong as the gravity of the moon. If you weigh a hundred pounds on earth, you would weigh only 16 pounds on the moon.