The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. 1km=1000m so 384,403,000m. Or it's 238,857miles
Yes, it does, and it is moving away slightly from each other. The moon moves away a few inches a year. Probably four inches.
382260 Km
240,000 miles
238,000 miles on the average
Mean Distance from Earth: 3.844x10^8 m Speed of Light (in a vaccum) 3x10^8 m/s T = D/V T = 3.844x10^8 m / 3x10^8 m/s T ~= 1.28 seconds Pleae note that the moon/earth distance varies, thus we used the mean in this equation.
One way to determine the mass of the Earth is to use Newton's law of gravitation and the known period and distance of the Moon. By knowing the orbital period of the Moon around the Earth and its distance from Earth, one can calculate the gravitational force between Earth and the Moon. By equating this gravitational force to the centripetal force needed to keep the Moon in its orbit, one can solve for the mass of the Earth.
1. Dist from Earth to Moon = 382500 Km 2. 382500 x 1000 = 382500000 m 3. 382500000 x 100 = 38250000000 cm
There exists a universal law of gravitation discovered by Newton which governs the force between any two masses. The size of the force is in proportion to the product of the masses divided by the square of the distance between the centres of the masses. Take an apple mass m at a distance R from the centre of the Earth mass M. The force (gravitational force aka weight) is proportional to (m x M)/R2. On the Moon mass N radius S, the force is proportional to (m x N)/S2. Because the Moon is much less massive than the Earth the ratio of these two forces is about 8 to 1 (check this fact) even though S is much smaller than R. The acceleration of a body released under gravity is the force divided by the mass ( a= F/m) : this is F=ma restated and experimental law called Newtons second law and this is a constant irrsspective of the mass of the body- the mass m cancels out because mM/R2 divided by m is proiportional to M/R2. For Earth and Moon the accelerations due to gravity are in proportion of M/R2 to N/S2 and this ratio is about 8 to 1 as I recall.
The speed of light is roughly 3.0x10^5 km/s, while the distance for a round trip is roughly 7.6x10^5 km. The time can be found by dividing the distance by the speed, which results in 2.5 seconds when obeying standard significant figures rules.
Mean Distance from Earth: 3.844x10^8 m Speed of Light (in a vaccum) 3x10^8 m/s T = D/V T = 3.844x10^8 m / 3x10^8 m/s T ~= 1.28 seconds Pleae note that the moon/earth distance varies, thus we used the mean in this equation.
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One way to determine the mass of the Earth is to use Newton's law of gravitation and the known period and distance of the Moon. By knowing the orbital period of the Moon around the Earth and its distance from Earth, one can calculate the gravitational force between Earth and the Moon. By equating this gravitational force to the centripetal force needed to keep the Moon in its orbit, one can solve for the mass of the Earth.
The distance between the Sun and the Earth is 1 AU (149.597 m km / 93 m miles) whereas the distance between the Sun and Venus is at an average of 0.723 AU (108. 200 m km / 67.625 m miles). So it can be called 72% of the Sun-Earth distance.
Because the moon's orbit is an ellipse it depends on what time you're talking about and where you are on the earth due to different altitudes; which can get very complicated. But the average distance is 3.84*10^8 m.
In scientific measurements, however, length is the distance between two points. That distance might be the diameter of a hair or the distance from earth to the moon. The SI base unit of length is the meter, m. A baseball bat is about 1 m long. Metric rulers and meter-sticks are used to measure length. FIGURE 12 compares a meter and a yard.
No. This planetary alignment causes a lunar eclipse because, the earth blocks the sun's rays from reaching the moon, so that the moon is inside the earth's shadow. S<<<E===m in the diagram above s represents the sun E represtents the Earth and m represents the moon. The< represents the sun's rays and the = represents the Earth's shadow.
S-E-M in this case stands for "Sun - Earth - Moon", and the relationship between the Moon circling the Earth and both of them being illuminated by the Sun explains the phases of the Moon; we're looking at the Moon from HERE, but the sunlight illuminating the Moon is coming from over THERE. Eclipses can only happen when the Earth and Moon are lined up so precisely that the shadow of one falls on the other. A solar eclipse is where the Moon's shadow touches the Earth; a lunar eclipse is when the Earth's shadow darkens the Moon.
No. This planetary alignment causes a lunar eclipse because, the earth blocks the sun's rays from reaching the moon, so that the moon is inside the earth's shadow. S<<<E===m in the diagram above s represents the sun E represtents the Earth and m represents the moon. The< represents the sun's rays and the = represents the Earth's shadow.
1. Dist from Earth to Moon = 382500 Km 2. 382500 x 1000 = 382500000 m 3. 382500000 x 100 = 38250000000 cm
As a result of the conservation of angular momentum, the slowing of Earth's rotation is accompanied by an increase of the mean Earth-Moon distance of about 3.8 m per century, or 3.8 cm per year.
There exists a universal law of gravitation discovered by Newton which governs the force between any two masses. The size of the force is in proportion to the product of the masses divided by the square of the distance between the centres of the masses. Take an apple mass m at a distance R from the centre of the Earth mass M. The force (gravitational force aka weight) is proportional to (m x M)/R2. On the Moon mass N radius S, the force is proportional to (m x N)/S2. Because the Moon is much less massive than the Earth the ratio of these two forces is about 8 to 1 (check this fact) even though S is much smaller than R. The acceleration of a body released under gravity is the force divided by the mass ( a= F/m) : this is F=ma restated and experimental law called Newtons second law and this is a constant irrsspective of the mass of the body- the mass m cancels out because mM/R2 divided by m is proiportional to M/R2. For Earth and Moon the accelerations due to gravity are in proportion of M/R2 to N/S2 and this ratio is about 8 to 1 as I recall.