The moon

Earth has one natural satellite: the moo

It is the brightest object in the night sky
(though it doesn't produce its own light)
It is a bleak place, with no water, no
plants, no air, and no life.
Spinning around and around
I t takes 27 days for the Moon to travel around,
or orbit, Earth. As it travels, it spins. Slowly.
t actually spins just once during each orbit of

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Asteroids are chunks of rock - some are small enough to hold
in your hand, while others are larger than a mountain. Most
of those in our solar system orbit .the2 un within the asteroid
belt, which lies betwec7n Jupiter and ' M c:i;s.
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be burned up in the atmosphere
rather than washed, and having
no floor or ceiling. Welcome to life
on a space station.