Dear Mr. Man in the Moon.... that moon is getting smaller every night. This is because it is in the waning gibbous phase. When the moon is waning it means it is getting smaller, because it is rotating towards becoming a new moon. When there is a new moon, we cannot see the moon from Earth due to the location of the moon and the light reflecting off of the back of the moon. This is a sketch of the moon from September 11, 2012 at 5:00 a.m. Although this is a sketch from September 12, it is the sketch of the moon for September 11, since the moon is not rising until at least 3:00 a.m. this week.
