what is the distance between moon and earth?
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Here is a quick page of info for ya. Hopes this helps.\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/space/moon.htm
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Both the Earth and Pluto orbit around the sun at different rates so their relative positions are constantly changing.  In addition, Pluto has an extremely eccentric orbit that at some times brings it closer to the sun than Neptune.  Using their orbital extremes and considering their positions around the sun, these are the closest and furthest distances between Earth and Pluto.\n\nClosest (Earth at furthest point from sun, Pluto at closest, both on same side of sun) - 4,284,726,912 kilometers (2,662,405,870 miles)\nFurthest(Earth at furthest point from sun, Pluto at furthest, both on opposite sides of sun) - 7,223,830,230 km (4,488,680,000 miles)
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The distance between the two systems vary because neither the moon orbiting the earth nor the earth orbiting the sun are in circular orbits; they are in elliptical orbits. The furthest distance is called the apogee, the closest, the perigee.\n\nYou can get the variation in distances by referring to Wikipedia:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth\nand\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon\n\nHope this helps!
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The moon's distance from the Earth is on average, 384400 km. Converted to inches that comes out to 15,133,858,267.65 inches (a little over 15 billion)\nHowever, due to an eliptical orbit, the moons distance varies from 363,258 km at its nearest point to 405,542 km at its farthest point. Converted that comes out to 14,301,496,062.93 inches at its nearest point to 15,966,220,472.37 inches at its farthest.\nSo, yes, the moon is about 15 billion inches away.  However, at any given time, it can vary anywhere from 14 billion to almost 16 billion inches from the Earth\nBest Wishes
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it is constantly changing since the moon rotates around the earth and the earth rotates around the sun just as mars rotates around the sun. Since the earth is 93 + or - million miles from the sun at any given time the planet mars is farther out from the sun than the earth. So if we are at our most outer distant positions 93 mil *2 and then some... would be our most distant position from each other. If we were at our closest it would be much less than 93 mil... these are estimates, but our distance can be a wide range of points in between 200 million to 45 million miles between the moon and mars. Hope this helps.
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The Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical.  When it is closest to the Sun it is a distance of 91.4 million miles.  At it's furthest it is 94.5m miles.  The distance between the Earth and the Sun is also known as 1AU (astronomical unit).
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It appears as a 3/4 moon.  It helps to make a drawing to visualize this.  The distance from earth to moon is a very small fraction of the distance from either earth or moon to the sun, so it's fair to approximate the light rays hitting earth and moon as parallel.  First, place the moon such that the earth-moon line is at 90 degrees to the earth-sun line.  In this setup we on earth who can see the moon at all see a half moon and moonlings who can see earth see a half earth.  Next move the moon further away from the sun so the earth-moon line is at 45 degrees to the earth-sun line.  Now the moon sees only 1/4 of the sunlit part of earth, a crescent.  (This is the situation described in the question.)  From earth, however, we see 3/4 of the sunlit part of the moon.  Whether the moon phase is waxing or waning depends on which "side" of the sun-earth-sun line the moon is on relative to the moon's earth-orbital rotation direction.
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Earth has an average distance of 149,630,000 kilometers from the Sun,or around 93 million miles.\n\nThe term average is used since Earth's orbit is elliptical.  So it is closer at some particular months than in others.  It is closest in January and farthest in early July, 91,400,000miles (147,094,041km) and 94,400,000 miles (151,922,074km) respectively.\n\nThe moon is 384401 km or 238855 miles.  Again this is average due to the moon's elliptical orbit.  More info: apogee (farthest distance from the Earth) is\n406700 km, and perigee (distance of closest approach to the Earth)\nis 356400 km.
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Approximately 38 billon marshmallows\n\nThe average distance between Earth and Moon is approximately 30 times Earth's diameter.\n\nEarth Mean diameter is 12,742 km \nMoon Mean diameter is 3,476 km\n\nWhen the Moon is at apogee, it is 11% farther from Earth than it is at perigee. \n\nPerigee: 363,300 km \nApogee:  405,500 km \n\nMean distance between Earth and Moon is therefore = 384,400 km = 384,400,000 meters\n\nIf the size of average Marshmallow is 1 cm = 0.01 meter\n\nNumber of Marshmallows between Earth and Moon =\n\n384,400,000 / 0.01 = 384,400,000 x 100 = 38,440,000,000 \n\n~= 38 billion
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Beacause asit goes around the Earth it becomes closer and further away during its cycle.  The moon is in an oval orbit.\nhttp://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/
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With or without stopping to ask for directions?\n\nIf the moon is (on average) 185,000 miles away and you drive 70 miles an hour, you'll get there in about 2600 hours, or somewhere around 110 days.\n\nRemember the moon is also moving, so you'll have to aim for the point in space where the moon will be when you get there ... and you'd better be going faster than 70 mph when you get there because the Moon won't wait up -- it's revolving around the Earth much faster than that.
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Since the moon's orbit is eliptical, at times it is either a bit closer or a bit further away from the Earth.  Here are those distances...\n\nPerigee:    363,300 km \nMean:       384,400 km \nApogee:     405,500 km
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The distance from Earth to Venus ranges from 41 million to 258 million km depending on where each is in its own orbit. Venus' gravitational pull is .9 g of 1 Earth g.
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Of course the Moon is closer than the Sun.\n\nThe average distance from the earth to the sun, the semimajor axis of its orbit, is 149,597,890 km.\n\nMoon's orbit is elliptical: its average orbital radius is 384401 km, apogee (farthest distance from the Earth) is 406700 km, and perigee (distance of closest approach to the Earth) is 356400 km.
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The Moon has a surface area of 152 million square kilometers.\nThe Earth is 13.5 times larger.
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The Earth's circumference is 23,627 miles or about 24,000 miles and the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 238,900 or about 240,000 miles.  If the students are learning the metric system, the figures are 38,025 km or about 38,000 km for the Earth's circumference and 384,400 km for the average Earth-Luna distance.
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Moon/Earth Comparison\nBulk parameters\n\n                                   Moon         Earth      Ratio (Moon/Earth)\nMass (1024 kg)                    0.07349       5.9736     0.0123    \nVolume (1010 km3)                 2.1958      108.321      0.0203\nEquatorial radius (km)           1738.1        6378.1    0.2725      \nPolar radius (km)                  1736.0        6356.8    0.2731\nVolumetric mean radius (km)        1737.1        6371.0    0.2727\nEllipticity (Flattening)          0.0012        0.00335    0.36    \nMean density (kg/m3)               3350          5515      0.607      \nSurface gravity (m/s2)            1.62          9.80       0.165    \nSurface acceleration (m/s2)       1.62          9.78       0.166    \nEscape velocity (km/s)            2.38         11.2        0.213    \nGM (x 106 km3/s2)                 0.0049        0.3986     0.0123 \nBond albedo                       0.11          0.306      0.360\nVisual geometric albedo           0.12          0.367      0.330    \nVisual magnitude V(1,0)          +0.21         -3.86          -\nSolar irradiance (W/m2)            1367.6        1367.6    1.000      \nBlack-body temperature (K)          274.5         254.3    1.079      \nTopographic range (km)               16            20      0.800      \nMoment of inertia (I/MR2)         0.394         0.3308     1.191\nJ2 (x 10-6)                     202.7        1082.63        0.187  \nRef The foll link