Do scientists think the moon came from the Pacific Ocean?
The Earth has had a moon for countless ages. And long ago our cavemen ancestors began to wonder how it got up in the sky. Wise men in every generation have wondered haw it was created. And even the clever scientists of our generation are not sure how the moon was born. The golden moon is our nearest neighbor in the sky, and we know a great deal about it. We know that it orbits the Earth and that each trip around takes a little longer than 27 days. We know how far away it is and that its distance varies between 226,000 and 252,000 miles. We know that it is a round ball and that our globe is almost four times wider than the moon. We know that the moon has a history. It was not always there, so it must have had a birthday. But we are sure that it was created in the dim, distant past. The experts know many facts about our golden moon, but they are not certain how it was created. When scientists meet a puzzling question, they gather facts and more facts. Each fact is tested and proved befor
