Moon
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Summary
Moon is a planetary moon[1]. Moon draws 83,919 Wikipedia views per month (planetary moon category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: planetary-mass moon[3], regular moon[4]
- Named after: brightness[5]
- Location: inner Solar System[6]
- Part of: Earth-Moon system[7]
- Has use: colonization of the Moon[8]
- Commons category: Moon[9]
- Located on astronomical body: Moon[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Earth[11]
- Child astronomical body: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter[12], CAPSTONE[13], Lunar Gateway[14], Chandrayaan-2[15]
- Unicode character: ☾[16], ☽[17]
- Type of orbit: high Earth orbit[18]
- Has part(s): atmosphere of the Moon[19], Montes Pyrenaeus[20], geological features on the Moon[21], lunar soil[22]
- Inception: -4527000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[23]
- Highest point: Selenean summit[24]
- Diocese: Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando[25]
- Topic's main category: Category:Moon[26]
- Commons gallery: Moon[27]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.0567[28], 0.054908[29]
- Flattening: 0.00125[30]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Moon[31]
- Apparent magnitude: -12.74[32]
- Depicted by: the Moon in fiction[33]
- Described by source: Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[34], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[35], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[36], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[37], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[38], Otto's encyclopedia[39], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[40], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[41], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[42], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[43], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[44], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[45], The New Student's Reference Work[46], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[47]
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Influence
Things named for Moon include selenium[48], a chemical element[49]; Monday[50], a day of the week[51]; Lua[52], a programming language[53], founded in 1993[54]; moonstone[55], a mineral variety[56]; Luna Sea[57], a musical group[58], founded in 1986[59]; Lunar Gateway[60], a space station[61], founded in 2027[62]; Chandannagar[63], a municipal corporation of West Bengal[64], in India[65]; and The Tit and the Moon[66], a film[67], directed by Bigas Luna[68].
Why It Matters
Moon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[69] Moon is known by 88 alternative names across languages and contexts.[70]
Entities named for Moon include selenium[48], a chemical element[49]; Monday[50], a day of the week[51]; Lua[52], a programming language[53], founded in 1993[54]; moonstone[55], a mineral variety[56]; Luna Sea[57], a musical group[58], founded in 1986[59]; and Lunar Gateway[60], a space station[61], founded in 2027[62].