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The Earth has the more reflective power.

How much light that is reflected from a body is know as the albedo. Earth has an albedo of 0.367 where as the moon has an albedo of only 0.136. The sun is not said to have an albedo because it emits far more energy that it could ever possibly reflect from other sources.

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