Is the distance shorter between the earth and sun or between the moon and the earth?

Answer 1

The distance between the Sun and the Earth is about 93,000,000 miles. The distance between the Moon and the Earth is about 250,000 miles.

The distance between the Moon and the Earth is thus shorter.

Answer 2

The earth is, on average, about 239,200 miles (385,000 kilometers) from the moon. The sun, on the other hand, is usually 92,955,902 miles (149,598,023 kilometers) away. So, on average, the moon is 388 times closer to the earth than the sun is. On average, light takes about 8 minutes, 18 seconds to get from the sun to the earth; it goes from the moon to the earth (or vice versa) in 1.3 seconds.

The ratio changes; for example, when the earth is farthest from the moon, it's 252,685 miles away; the maximum distance between the earth and the sun is 94,509,130 miles; if those two events coincide, then the sun is only 377 times farther from the earth than the moon is. It's still a big difference, though.

Answer 3

Mercury's orbit around the sun is about 150 times as long as

the Moon's orbit around Earth.

Mercury:

Average distance from the sun . . . . . . 35,980,000 miles

Length of orbit, referred to the sun: . 226,070,000 miles

Moon:

Average distance from Earth. . . . . . . 239,000 miles

Length of orbit, referred to Earth: . 1,502,000 miles.

Answer 4

More like 390 times as far away as the moon is.

Answer 5

Roughly four hundred times further away

Answer 6

400

Answer 7

No