The Moon Part 1

The Moon is 238,885 (two hundred thirty-eighty thousand eight hundred eighty-five) mi from the Earth and about 25 (twenty-five) percent of Earth's size. In addition, the moon orbits the Earth once every month and each orbit takes 27.3 days It spins once on its oxis every 720 (seven hundred twenty) hours. The Moon is  the brightest object in the night sky. But it does not give out any light itself it shines only because its light colored surface reflects sunlight. Only the side the Moon lit by the Sun is bright enough to see. And because we see more of this side each then less again. The moon seems to change shape. During the first half of each monthly cycle the Moon waxes grows from a crescent shaped New Moon its a full moon. During the second half it crescent shaped old moon. The moon may have formed when a smaller newly planet callidad with the Earth early on  in the formation of the Solar System.