What planet in the solar system is closest to the moon?

Answer 1

Well, it is obviously Earth. But if you meant the nearest planet (excluding Earth), it varies from time to time; at their closest approaches Venus is around 45,000,000 km away to the Earth and Mars is around 80,000,000 km away from the Earth. But they aren't always or even usually at their closest approach to Earth. Whether Earth and the Moon are closer to Venus or to Mars depends on the three planets' relative positions in their orbits. When Mars is at opposition it is only about 80 million km from Earth and the Moon (60 million km if the opposition occurs at Mars' perihelion), and when Venus Is at superior conjunction it is 225 million km away.

Answer 2

The closest planet to Earth's Moon is the Earth itself. The distance is approximately 242,000 miles.

The Earth and Moon as a binary system have Venus as the next closest planet at approximately 25,000,000 miles. Tis occurs when at 'conjuction'. That is when the Earth , Venus and the Sun are in a line. Because of orbital rotation they can be in 'opposition' , when it is the Earth, Sun and Venus in a line. When in opposition other planets may be nearer, such AS Mercury 0OR Mars.

Answer 3

Well, it is obviously Earth. But if you meant the nearest planet (excluding Earth), it varies from time to time; at their closest approaches Venus is around 45,000,000 km away to the Earth and Mars is around 80,000,000 km away from the Earth. But they aren't always or even usually at their closest approach to Earth. Whether Earth and the Moon are closer to Venus or to Mars depends on the three planets' relative positions in their orbits. When Mars is at opposition it is only about 80 million km from Earth and the Moon (60 million km if the opposition occurs at Mars' perihelion), and when Venus Is at superior conjunction it is 225 million km away.

Answer 4

The planet in our solar system that is closest to the moon is Earth. Earth's moon orbits around our planet at a relatively close distance compared to other planets and their moons in the solar system.

Answer 5

hi = look at the moon
what moon? there's several moons and that's just in this galaxy, there are several other galaxies, but in this galaxy and if you mean "our"/earth's moon then it's of course earth :)

The earth. The moon is closely associated with the earth as it orbits the earth less than 1/4 million miles away. All other planets, with their moons, if they have them, are many tens of millions of miles away. For "galaxy" read "solar system". Moons have never been detected close to planets anywhere else in this galaxy, never mind other galaxies, though no doubt they exist.
The Earth

Answer 6

You may be thinking of the planet Venus which can appear close to the moon at times, but it is actually some distance away and much larger than the moon. In terms of distance, there is no planet closer to the moon than earth.

Answer 7

Around 20th-22nd June, it was Jupiter.

On the 23rd, the Moon occulted Neptune (not a bright planet)

On the 25th, the Moon passed north of Uranus (also not bright).

There are currently no bright objects near the Moon (June 26)

Research by Arsalan (AZEE)

Answer 8

The closest planet to the moon is the Earth at 384,400 kilometers. The closest that a planet and its moon are is Phobos, which orbits Mars at 9380 kilometers distance.

Answer 9

The Earth itself is always by far the closest planet to the Moon.

Answer 10

it depends on what planet and what moon you aer talking about.