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The sun is approximately 1 AU (149,597,870.7 km. or 92,955,807.27 mi.) from the Earth. Compared to Mercury, the Earth isn't that close to the Sun, but compared to Jupiter or Saturn, it is pretty close.
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That's a fine example of a question to which you can get different answers from
different people, because the criteria used to define it are so arbitrary.
"Close" is a concept that has different meanings in different contexts ... just as
Prof. Einstein so brilliantly expounded in his work on Relativity..
If you live in Chicago, then the sun is 270 thousand times farther from you than Des Moines is,
but 270,000 times closer to you than the next nearest star is.
So in the end, it really depends on what you call "close".
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoThe sun is roughly 400 times as far from us as the moon is.
So, as the moon revolves around the Earth, there are times when it can be
as much as 1/4% closer to the sun than we are, and other times when it can
be as much as 1/4% farther from the sun than we are.
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∙ 14y agoThat depends on what you call "near".
The distance to the moon is roughly 1/4 million miles(380 thousand km). Traveling to the
moon and back is a distance equivalent to traveling around the world about 20 times.
The sun is about 390 times farther than the moon.
As modern science has taught us, everything is 'relative'. Compared to the nearest star,
the sun and moon are both quite near. Compared to the corner store, they're both
unimaginably far.
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∙ 15y agoThe moon is currently moving farther away from the earth, at approximately 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) per year. Full discussion found at curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=124
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∙ 15y agoThe moon is 384,400 kilometers from Earth. For astronomers, this is close.
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∙ 14y agoNo, the moon is in orbit near Earth (which, I suppose, can say is next to the Earth) the closest heavenly body to the sun is the planet Mercury
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∙ 13y ago"Apogee" means the point in the moon's orbit where it's farthest from earth.
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∙ 14y agoThat depends what you call "near".
The moon is about 390 times farther from the sun that it is from the earth.
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Did we land on the near side of the moon?
Yes. There was no choice; if they landed on the lunar far side, their radio and TV signals would not reach Earth (with the Moon itself in the way!).
What is the minimum percent of the moon that needs to be illuminated in order for the phase to be called gibbous?
A "gibbous" Moon has between 51% and 99% of the illuminated side of the Moon visible from Earth. Just to be precise; the Moon is always 50% illuminated. The Moon is a rocky ball, half in sunlight and half in darkness. As the Moon orbits the Earth, the same face of the Moon is always visible. From the Earth, we see "phases" of the Moon as the Moon orbits the Earth. At the new moon phase, the illuminated half of the Moon is the "far side" of the Moon; at the full, the illuminated half is the "near side".
When does the dark side of the moon face earth?
There is no "dark side" of the moon, meaning a side that's always dark. When it's nighttime on the moon on its near side, we see a New Moon. When it's nighttime on the far side, we see a Full Moon.The moon always keeps one face toward Earth, and to do that the moon has to rotate once on its axis every month. If you put a chair in the middle of the room, and you walk around the chair always facing it, then you'll find that you have to turn your body once with respect to the rest of the room before you can make one complete circuit around the chair.The moon does something similar. It always keeps one face toward the Earth - but to do that it has to spin on its axis once a month, at the same time that it's moving in its orbit around Earth. The moon's spin on its axis is what makes it possible for the moon to have a near side and a far side as seen from Earth.
Why can you never see a lunar eclipse in a crescent or half-moon phase?
With the sun in front of the earth, the earth's shadow is out behind it.A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon is behind the earth, and passes through earth's shadow.The moon is behind the earth ... in the neighborhood of the earth's shadow ... ONLY at the time of Full Moon.During the crescent and "half moon" phases, the moon is off to the side, far from the earth's shadow.
Why is the moon always dark on the opposite side?
No. Just like almost every place on earth, almost every place on the moon has a 'daytime' ... when the sun is up and the ground is light ... followed by a 'nighttime' ... when the sun is down and the ground is dark. On earth, the sun-up and sun-down periods average out to 12 hours each. On the moon, they average out to almost two earth-weeks each.
Is the moon apogee near to or far from the earth?
"Apogee" means the point in the moon's orbit where it's farthest from earth.
Is the moon at apogee near or far from the earth?
Its far, apo means up/away
How far is the earth from the moon at perigee At apogee?
its closer at perigee than at apogee.
When the moon is at apogee how far away from the earth?
252,088 miles
What is meant by apogee and pengee?
Apogee means Far from the earth..... It's not Pengee its Perigee... Perigee means near from the earth...
When the moon is at apogee it is how far away from earth?
right answer is-252,088 miles
Is a moon at apogee near to or far from the earth?
At Apogee it is furthest from the Earth. At Perigee it is nearest to the Earth. The mean distance of the moon from the Earth is 242,000 miles. However, the Moon moves in an ellipsoid path., with the Earth at one of the foci of the ellipse. Also its orbit is not co-planar with the Earth's orbit about the Sun, but slightly angled. As a consequence the Moon appears to move faster/slower during the lunar month, and, phases discounted, appears to be larger/smaller. Because of non-co-planarity we do not see a lunar/solar eclipse every months.
Is the moon at apogee near or far away from earth?
The word "apogee" is used to describe the farthest point away from Earth, while perigee is the closest point to Earth. This is used to describe the parameters of satellite orbits around the Earth. Both values may change due to gravitational variations.The word apogee is the adaptation of the term apsis which is the term for a farthest distance from some object, with gee (geo) meaning Earth.
What is the orbital far point called?
For objects in orbit around the sun, it's the aphelion. For objects in Earth orbit, it's the 'apogee', and in orbit around the moon, it's the 'apolune'.
What is the farthest point from earth in the Moon's orbit?
At furthest apogee the Moon is 406700 km from the Earth (according to Wikipedia - I do not know if this is from the geometric center of the East to the geometric center of the Moon, from the barycenter of the Earth/Moon system, or from the surfaces of these bodies,)If the 406700 km is the geometric center's distances you add 4 600 km: (the radius of the Earth 6 378 km minus the Moon's radius 1 738 km to get the distance from the far side of the Earth to the near side of the Moon) 402 100 kmApoluneThe crossword answer asked for a seven letter solution,and apogee and apoapsis did not fit,so the correct answer is apolune
How far do you have to be to see whole side of earth?
you have to be near the moon
When the Moon is at apogee it is how far away from the Earth?
It varies with each lunar orbit. However, a mean distance is approximately 225,000 miles. Like the Earth and the Sun, the Moob orbits the Earth in an ellipse (NOT a circle). The Earth being at one of the foci of the ellipse. This ellipse can vary between a very narrow ellipse to nearly circular; it is normal Newtonian mechanics. As a consequence of this variability the apogee and perigee can vary too.
