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The woman looked at the time on her watch and looked around at all the students that were currently here. Not a huge turn out but at least she had some students to teach today and at least there were students that were willing to learn at this time of night. She knew very well that all the students were most likely tired out from the day. Caroleena stood up from her desk and walked to the back of the classroom and closed the door. "Good evening everyone." she smiled as she walked back to the front of her desk. "I know the time of night is a little later than what I've been teaching my lessons but I figure a change was in order. If any of you want some tea to keep you awake I have some tea over there." she said in a sweet tone, which was very unlike her. Professor Salvatore pointed over towards a table with some tea pots full of hot water and many boxes of tea.
"For tonight's lesson we will be learning about the moons in our solar system. In order to get to know about the other moons in our solar system there's some information that we need to cover about our moon. " she paused momentarily. She had a tendency of doing so to make sure students were paying attention but to also allow any students that were writing knows could catch up. "Simply, what is a moon? A moon is natural satellite that orbits a planet or minor planet. That being said there is no established limit on what is considered a moon. Really any celestial body in space that has an orbit is able to have a moon." Another pause for anyone taking notes.
"Earth's moon," she began at she pointed towards the sky, the moon was currently visible in the night sky. "is 238,900 miles away from us. Our moon is about 4.53 billion years old and has a twenty-seven day orbit period."
She would get into more information as soon as she got the first question out of the way before moving on about the other planets.
"We have eight planets in our solar system, can anyone tell me about how many moons are currently in our solar system?
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Moons.
Char didn't mind the moon. She always thought it was a sort of... comforting thing. You could rely on it, it was always there ever you expected it to be. She supposed other moons were much the same really, and she wasn't sure how many there were, didn't the number keep changing?
Her hand went up.
"I don't think anyone knows for sure how many moons there are, professor. The official count changes all the time as new ones are discovered, so there are probably actually hundreds, maybe even thousands, muggles haven't got the technology to be exact about it, because of orbits and stuff, if you don't know something exists then you can't exactly know where it should be. So any reported number should be followed by 'that we know about so far'."
Maybe she would have some tea later, but for now she was okay.
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