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What do the distances of the the moon to the earth and the sun to the earth mean?
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∙ 10y ago
"Distance" means how far two object are from one another. In this case, how far the Moon is from Earth, or how far the Sun is from Earth.
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How many earth to moon distances are there from earth to sun?
Like 74,507,811.09
What does the distances from sun to earth and moon from earth mean?
It means that by coincidence the Moon looks the same size as the Sun in the sky - so we get to see total eclipses of the Sun, when the Moon fits exactly in front of the Sun and blocks its light out for a few minutes.
What is keeping the distances between the sun earth and the moon?
Gravity
What is the average distances between the Sun and Earth and between the Earth and the moon?
about 10,000000km
What is keeping the distances between the sun moon and the earth constant?
Gravity
What is the relative size and distance relationships among the sun earth and moon?
The earth's diameter is 3.67 times the moon's, and 0.0092 of the sun's diameter. The distance to the sun is 391 times the distance to the moon. The moon's diameter is 0.283 of the earth's, and 0.0025 of the sun's. The distance to the earth is 0.0026 times the distance to the sun. The sun's diameter is 109 times the earth's, and 400 times the moon's diameter. On the average over a month, the earth and moon are at equal distances from the sun.
Is the moon closer to the sun?
well... if you mean that the moon is closer to the sun than the earth, then yes.
sun earth and moon?
sun earth and moon
Where is the sun and the moon?
The Sun is at a mean distance of about 150 million kilometers from Earth. The Moon is at a mean distance of 380,000 kilometers from Earth. The direction at which you find them vary over time.
Why sun and moon looks like same size from earth?
Well the moon is smaller and closer, and the sun is larger and further away. We all know that the further away an object is the smaller it appears; it's just miraculous that the Earth, Moon and Sun are spaced apart at the perfect distances for the moon to appear almost exactly the same size as the sun.
Which has the greatest effect the sun or the moon?
It depends on what effect you mean. The sun affects the weather on Earth the most and the moon affects the tides on Earth the most.
The Moon is between Earth and the Sun?
The moon is revolving around Earth, so sometimes the Moon is between the Sun and Earth and Earth is between the moon and sun.
