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Published: 2023-12-11 12:48:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 317; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 0
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The moons average distance to earth is 384.400 km, which equals approximately 10 times the circumference of the Earth (≈ 40.000 km).What may seems to be a huge distance for earthly measurement, isn't really that much if put in astronomical context.
A more common unit in astronomy on a solar-system-scale is the astronomical unit (AU), which corresponds to the average distance between the Sun and the Earth.
1 AU ≈ 149.597.871 km ≈ 1,4960 * 10^11 m
If put in comparison, the distance between earth and sun is about 390 times the distance between earth and moon.
149.597.871 km / 384.400 km ≈ 390
1 AU * 384.400 km / 149.597.871 km ≈ 0,0026 AU
