Wikijunior talk:Solar System/Moon

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[edit] Sources

w:Moon -- General data

w:Far_side_Moon

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[[3]] -- More general data

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html Formation of the moon

Atlas of the universe ISBN 0 540 06087 9 -moon fact

[edit] Tides and Moon Phases

I think the Moon is a special case and you need to mention its effects on the Earth - tides. You also need to explain full moons and half moons etc. because kids will want to understand that phenomena. :81.155.252.32 22:39, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

That's a good idea. Theresa knott 23:44, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

How about a couple questions like: Why does the moon change it's appearance? Why does the sun appear to rise over the eastern horizon and set over the western horizon? --Jsigler (talk) 19:11, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Another comment

Just to have it said: Today's version of "how much would I weigh on ..." is total rubbish. Be consisent with the other articles! The way you explain it, there'd only be the need for one general "how much would I weigh on ..." section at the very beginning of the whole topic. That is of course right in every sense, but since the question itself is rather wishy washy I suggest to handle it the way it was done in the other articles and re-revert to my version! Kilogram _is_ an acceptable unit btw.! Or should we rather call Newtons into play?

Those kilograms are acceptable units of mass, and no longer acceptable units of force. They do not change depending on your location. It is improper for you to give the impression that they do. There are no kilograms force in the modern metric system, the International System of Units (SI).
Note that kilograms, not newtons (lowercase), are the proper units SI for your weight in the doctor's office (the terminology used in these articles even before my edits), or any time we weigh ourselves for purposes of fitness and health, in the medical sciences and in sports. Metric1000 13:52, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Lunnik or Lunik or Luna

I'm interested in this spelling as everything I have seen spells the Soviet lunar spacecraft as Lunik or more usually Luna. Evil Monkey 00:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Be bold! Please, look it up, put the correct spelling in, use a citation to back up your fact-checking (see section on fact-checking in proofreading plan. Thanks! -- SV Resolution 18:19, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tides

This page does an ok job of explaing tides, but not why there are two high tides/day (instead of one). I'm wondering if a graphic along the lines of this would be too complicated for this audience? See [4] --Duk 17:48, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I think your image would take a lot of words to explain. And we are already WAY over our word limit for this book. If we had a book just about the moon, or just about physical oceanography, I think it would fit. But I don't think we are going to get that specialized in a series of 48-page booklets for 8-11 year olds. --SV Resolution 18:11, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
OK, I made some diagrams for w:Tide#Tidal physics and agree they are probably too much for this audience.--Duk 05:32, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] to-scale diagram

In addition to the Moon Earth Comparison.png , it would be nice to show a picture that not only shows the true relative sizes of Earth and Luna, but also the distance between them -- something like

This looks great - please insert it into the article!
Thanks, David Kernow 16:31, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
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