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Also known as The Moon, , Luna, , Earth I, Sol IIIa, moon, Lua

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The Moon is a planetary-mass regular moon in a high Earth orbit around its parent body, Earth. It is part of the Earth-Moon system and has an orbital eccentricity of 0.0567. Its semi-major axis is 384400, and it completes an orbital period of 27.321661. The object has an apparent magnitude of -12.74 and a radius of 1738.14. Its mass is 73.4767, with a flattening of 0.00125.

The Moon possesses an atmosphere, lunar soil, and the Montes Pyrenaeus. It exhibits a magnetic field and moonquakes. It was named after brightness and has existed for about 4527 million years. The Unicode characters ☾ and ☽ represent the subject. It is described by sources including the Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. The topic appears in the Commons category and gallery for Moon.

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Planet.name
Moon
Planet.apsis
gee
Planet.symbol
24px|☾|class=skin-invert or 24px|☽|class=skin-invert
Planet.image
FullMoon2010.jpg
Planet.image_alt
Full Moon in the darkness of the night sky. It is patterned with a mix of light-tone regions and darker, irregular blotches, and scattered with varied circles surrounded by out-thrown rays of bright ejecta: impact craters.
Planet.caption
Near side of the Moon, lunar north pole at top
Planet.background
Thistle
Planet.mpc_name
Earth I
Planet.periapsis
 km(– km)
Planet.apoapsis
 km(– km)
Planet.mean_orbit_radius
(; 1/384 AU; )
Planet.semimajor
(; 1/389 AU; )
Planet.inclination
5.145° to the ecliptic
Planet.satellite_of
Earth
Planet.equatorial_radius
(0.2725 of Earth's)
Planet.polar_radius
(0.2731 of Earth's)
Planet.mean_radius
(0.2727 of Earth's)
Planet.circumference
(equatorial)

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