Neptune Has 8Neptune Has 8 Saturn Has 18Saturn Has 18

Jupiter Has 16Jupiter Has 16 Mars Has 2Mars Has 2 Uranus Has 15Uranus Has 15

Earth Has 1Earth Has 1

MOONS!MOONS!

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

Compared to other moons in our solar system, ours is the largest in comparison to its host planet.

It is about 1/4 the size of earth.

The distance between the Earth and the moon averages about 240,000 miles.

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

Gravity is about 1/6 of that on earth.Which means that if you weigh 180 lbs on earth you would weigh only 30 lbs on the moon.

The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles.

About the distance from Los Angeles to Chicago.

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

Did you know that the rotation of the moon on its axis takes the same amount of time as it takes the moon to complete one orbit of the Earth, which is about 27.3 days?

That is why we see the same side of the the moon at all times!

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

The moon orbits the Earth at an average speed of 2,300 miles an hour.

Since there is no atmosphere on the moon the temperature ranges from 243 degrees Fahrenheit in the sun to -272 degrees in the dark.

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, on Apollo 11, were the first humans to set foot on the moon.

Not only does the Moon give us light at night but it also gives us our tides!

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

The Moon Gives Us Our TidesThe Moon Gives Us Our Tides

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

The Moon Gives Us Our TidesThe Moon Gives Us Our Tides

Some Facts About Our Some Facts About Our Moon!Moon!

The Moon Keeps the Earth Tilted On Its Axis of 23.5 Degrees.

This Tilt Gives Us Our Seasons!

What If…What If…

We Had No We Had No Moon?Moon?

What If… We Had No Moon?What If… We Had No Moon?

“What would life on earth be like without the moon? Well, chances are, there wouldn’t be any life on earth without the moon. Life – if it had started at all – would still be in the earliest stages of evolution. Scientist use the latest computer simulations to show how an ancient rogue planet – Orpheus – collided with the earth millions of years ago, producing a sizable chunk of debris that eventually became our moon. If that collision had never occurred, we would live in a very different place.

What If… We Had No Moon?What If… We Had No Moon?

Imagine a moon-less weather report – blizzards over the Sahara, floodwaters swallowing the Pyramids, 90 degree temperatures in Antarctica. As the earth wobbles on its axis – unsecured by the moon’s gravitational pull – the polar caps would grow and recede at frightening rates. And without the moon, our planet would spin much faster – meaning four hour days and searing temperatures.”

Discovery Channel Documentary

What If… We Had No Moon?What If… We Had No Moon?

• We would have 6 – 8 hour days• The winds would blow 100 – 200 mph• There would be no seasons• The tides would be nonexistent • The oceans would be gone• There would be no atmosphere• There would be no human life

What If… We Had No Moon?What If… We Had No Moon?

JupiterJupiter • 300 times more massive than earth• Diameter about 10 times the size of earth's • Rotates every 10 hours • Winds average 100 – 200 mph • Storms stay for long periods of time

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“Scientist use the latest computer simulations to show how an ancient rogue planet – Orpheus – collided with the earth millions of years ago, producing a sizable chunk of debris that eventually became our moon.”

Discovery Channel Documentary

Imagine donning a gown and mask and walking into the operating room of a trauma center. Everywhere you look there is order and neatness – after all, surgeons need to have instant access to a multitude of surgical supplies. Lives are at stake, and time is of the utmost importance.

Now, consider for a moment if someone were to suggest, to you, that this precisely ordered surgical room just happened by mere chance, and that every single item just “happened” to find its way there by chance!

Sound Ridiculous?

Consider, then, how ridiculous it is for men dressed in white lab coats to stand before college students and proclaim that this finely tuned Universe just “happened by accident” without any Divine intervention.

It is a fact that the Universe is delicately ordered and complex, far more so than any operating room. Yet, we continue to be told that this magnificent world and Universe in which we live, that includes you and me, are the result of an cosmological accident that happened some 14 billion years ago.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the

earth.”

Genesis 1:1

Genesis 1:14-19…

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth; and it was so.

Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years;

Genesis 1:14

God Created You and Me!

“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

God Created You and Me!

Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”

Genesis 1:26-28;31

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.”

II Peter 3:10

God Will Destroy the World!

“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy,  that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear.”

Isaiah 59:1-2

Sin Separates Us From God!

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23

Sin Separates Us From God!

God’s Plan of Salvation!God’s Plan of Salvation!

Hear His Word Romans 10:17

Believe John 8:24

Repent Luke 13:3,5

Confess Romans 10:9-10

Baptized Acts 2:38; 22:16

Live Faithfully Revelation 2:10

Are You Ready To Face God

In Judgment

?

By Bob Gard – Hollister, Missouri church of Christ www.hollisterchurchofchrist.org Idea Came from a Discovery Channel Documentary “What if We Had No Moon?” Some pictures taken from: www.imagineeringezine.com http://home.hiwaay.net/~krcool/Astro/moon/moontides/

April 25, 2010 am