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The Moon is closer. The Sun is 380 times farther away.
The Moon is about 384,400 km (239,000 miles) away from the Earth,
The Sun is 149.6 million km (93,000,000 miles) away from the Earth.
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∙ 6y ago
Christine Molaatlou
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∙ 13y agoNo the closest planet is a few hundred thousand miles away the closest star is our sun which is about 93,000,000 miles, and the next closest is 4 light years away which is about 23,462,784,000,000 miles. (over 23 trillion miles)
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∙ 10y agoThe Moon.
The closest star is 100 million times farther from Earth (37 trillion kilometers vs 380,000 km).
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∙ 12y agoMars. Think of it like this: Mars is a few feet away. The nearest star after the sun is three counties away.
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∙ 8y agoThe planets of our solar system are closer.
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∙ 10y agoThe average distance from the moon to the sun is about 390 times the average distance from the moon to Earth.
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Nearest is the Moon. Then the Sun (a star), and the stars.
However, some of the planets in the Solar System can be nearer to the Earth than the Sun , Notably, Mercury, Venus and Mars.
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∙ 13y agoThe moon.
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Does the weight of something change depending on where it is?
Yes, because if you are 90 pounds on earth you would be 15 pounds on the moon. This is because weight is the force of gravity acting on an object, and the force of gravity depends on the mass of the object. The force of gravity on the earth is six times greater than that of the moon, or, the force of gravity on the moon is 1/6 that of the earth. On earth, a person's weight would vary slightly between sea level and the top of a mountain. This is because the force of gravity is stronger the closer an object is to the center of the earth (or moon, or planet).
If the moon were covered with water tidal effects by Earth would find the moon with three tidal budges or no tidal budges or two tidal budges or four tidal budges or one tidal budge?
There are two tidal bulges; one on the side of the Earth closest to the Moon, and one directly on the opposite side. The explanation is a little tricky. We think of the Earth as following its own orbital path around the Sun, and the Moon orbiting the Earth. But this isn't exactly true. Because the Moon is so large, it's almost like two planets that orbit each other rather than moon orbiting the parent body. Because water is a liquid and every water molecule is free to move, we can think of the oceans of the Earth as trying to orbit the Moon. The Earth has a radius of about 4000 miles or 6400 km. All of the water molecules on the Moon side of the Earth are in too low an orbit - by 4000 miles - for their speed, and they should fall into a closer orbit toward the Moon. (The Earth's gravity prevents them from going very far, but the effect is there. ) On the side away from the Moon, every water molecule is in too HIGH an orbit, and is moving too fast - and the water tries to rise into its "proper" higher orbit. Of course, the Earth's gravity is so much greater, because the Earth is much larger than the moon and much closer - but the gravitational pull of the Moon (and to a lesser extent, the Sun) is what causes tides on BOTH sides of the Earth.
Why is the gravitational pull of the moon stronger than the suns?
No. Gravity is a function of mass, and since the sun is thousands of times bigger, the sun's gravitational force is abomany thousands of times greater. However, the moon is much closer to earth (a quarter of a million miles vs. 93,000,000 miles for the sun), so the moon's gravitational effect on the earth is much larger than the sun's gravitational effect on the earth. This is why ocean tides resulting from the moon's gravitational pull are much higher than tides resulting from the sun's gravitational pull. One a month, when the sun and moon are aligned on the same side of the earth, will create the highest tides since the gravitational pull of both sun and moon are pulling in the same direction.
How does newtons law of universal gravitational apply to earth and the moon?
If it were not for the Earth's pull of gravity the moon would fly away from the Earth. The moon's pull of gravity on the Earth causes the tides.
Does Earth exert a contact or a non-contact force on the moon?
Earth exerts a non-contact force on the moon.
Why does the moon seem so big compared to the stars?
Because the Moon is much nearer than the stars to the Earth.
Why do stars planets and moons do not collide it self?
The moon is many times closer to the Earth than the stars are.
Is the north star closer to the earth than the moon?
No, the Moon is closer to the earth
What is closer to earth polaris or the moon?
The Moon is closer.
Is the moon closer to the star or the earth?
The moon is much closer to the Earth than it is to the Sun.
Why do stars at night look smaller than the moon?
It is very simple answer; moon closer than earth in campair of star. everything which is closer to you is seen bigger in campair thing which is far away from you.
Is mercury closer to the size of the Earth or your moon?
It is closer to the Earth
What is closer to earth - the sun or other stars?
the sun is closer ot the earth than the other stars are .
Is the sun or other stars closer to Earth?
the sun is closer ot the earth than the other stars are .
Is mercury or the moon closer to earth's size?
Mercury is larger than the moon and so is closer in size to Earth than the moon is. It should be noted that Mercury is closer in size to the moon than it is to Earth.
Which is closer to Earth the moon or the sun?
the moon
Is the sun closer to earth or moon?
The Sun is at the same average distance from both the Earth and the Moon because the Earth-Moon system orbits the sun. However, since the Moon orbits around the Earth, it is sometimes closer to the Sun than is the Earth, and sometimes farther. But the difference is negligible since the Sun is more than 380 times as far from Earth as the Moon.
