The moon is closer to the earth than is the sun.
* When Earth is at periapsis (closest to the Sun, in January), Earth, and therefore the Moon, are closer to the Sun than when Earth is at apapsis. * On average, at new moon the Moon is closer to the Sun than at full moon, since at full moon the Moon is opposite to the Sun in the sky.
That would be at the moment of the New Moon closest to perihelion, which happens to be the one closest to New Years day or January 2. The moon is then in between the Earth and sun, while the Earth/Moon system is closest to the sun.
The moon is much closer to the earth that the sun. The moon is about 239,000 miles away. The sun is about 93,000,000 miles away.
No. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. The moon is not a planet and is the closest object in space to Earth.
The Moon is the closest to my planet called Earth, followed by the Sun and then Uranus.
The closest that the Moon gets to the Sun is 146,692,378 kilometers, which is not significantly closer than the Earth does. As the Moon orbits the earth in a regular orbit, it is the same average distance from the Sun as the Earth. At any given time the Moon is about 370 times farther from the Sun than it is from the Earth.The Moon is at the absolutely closest point when the Moon is at apogee, on the side of the Earth closest to the Sun, and the Earth is at perihelion with respect to the Sun. This absolute closest approach is incredibly rare, and the actual distance will vary each year.Overall, the Moon's "sun-side" perigee is somewhere around 405,000 km, and the perihelion of the Earth to the Sun is about 147 million km. So, the closest approach of the Moon to the Sun is about 146.5 million km, or about 0.98 AU.
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No, Earth's Moon it is the closest - since Mercury and Venus have no moons.
A moon, by definition, is not a planet. The closest planet to our sun is Mercury, followed by Venus and the Earth, then Mars.
The moon that revolves around the earth is not a star, it is part of the earth that was thrown off into space when the earth was hit by a large asteroid early in its development, about 30 million years after the earth first was formed. The closest star to the Earth is our Sun, it is a star and it is called Sol.
The Earth.
The Earth's moon, whose name is Luna, is indeed the closest of the solar system moons to the Sun.