The Almost Moon is the third book and the second novel by the American author Alice Sebold, author of the memoir, Lucky and the best-selling novel The Lovely Bones. Exerting gravitational force on Earth, it and to a lesser extent the Sun are the main drivers of the tides.

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Its sources include outgassing and sputtering, a product of the bombardment of lunar soil by solar wind ions. In 2009, LCROSS sent a 2,300kg (5,100lb) impactor into a permanently shadowed polar crater, and detected at least 100kg (220lb) of water in a plume of ejected material.The lunar geologic timescale is based on the most prominent impact events, including Nectaris, Imbrium, and Orientale; structures characterized by multiple rings of uplifted material, between hundreds and thousands of kilometers in diameter and associated with a broad apron of ejecta deposits that form a regional stratigraphic horizon. Above a high resolution threshold for simulations, [ clarify] a study published in 2022 finds that giant impacts can immediately place a satellite with similar mass and iron content to the Moon into orbit far outside Earth's Roche limit. The Moon is a differentiated body that was initially in hydrostatic equilibrium but has since departed from this condition. It is made of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium, and aluminum, with small amounts of titanium, uranium, thorium, potassium, and hydrogen.

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While the giant-impact theory explains many lines of evidence, some questions are still unresolved, most of which involve the Moon's composition. The regolith of older surfaces is generally thicker than for younger surfaces: it varies in thickness from 10–15m (33–49ft) in the highlands and 4–5m (13–16ft) in the maria. Lurid action is easier to come up with than the subtleties of everyday family chafing you find in works such as Death of a Salesman or A Long Day's Journey Into Night, not that those don't have their drug addiction and adultery. As Helen tells us the successively crazier things she's doing - dumping the body in the deep freeze, summoning her ex of 23 years earlier, having sex with her best friend's son - she also takes us back over her life's previous 49 years of discoveries about her family and herself. Due to its tilt, some parts of the Moon's surface never see sunlight, allowing water ice to survive in some of its craters.Main article: Atmosphere of the Moon The thin lunar atmosphere is visible on the Moon's surface at sunrise and sunset with the lunar horizon glow [84] and lunar twilight rays, like Earth's crepuscular rays. The Moon's diameter is about 3,500km, more than a quarter of Earth's, with the face of the Moon comparable to the width of either Australia, [17] Europe or the US without Alaska. Some combination of an initially hotter mantle and local enrichment of heat-producing elements in the mantle could be responsible for prolonged activities on the far side in the Orientale basin. A major geologic process that has affected the Moon's surface is impact cratering, [136] with craters formed when asteroids and comets collide with the lunar surface.

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On average, 120 kilograms of dust are present above the Moon, rising up to 100 kilometers above the surface. Helen Dunmore of The Times notes that, "Chapter by chapter, Sebold peels away the layers of her narrator's misery and self-deception, and creates an extended and sometimes blackly comic critique of a popular literary genre.

Another examination of the LCROSS data showed the amount of detected water to be closer to 155±12kg (342±26lb). There are 13 and a half days of high temperatures followed by 13 and a half days of darkness, and once the Sun goes down the temperature at the bottom of craters can plummet to -173°C.