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The moon is much closer to us than any planet or star. Venus comes the closest to us out of all the planets, and event at its closest is still more than 100 times farther away the the moon is. The nearest star other than the sun is several million times farther away than the moon is.

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It is much closer.

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Because it is MUCH closer.

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It is closer to earth than all the others

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