The moon has no atmosphere and has less gravity than the earth.
That means that a cannonball fired on the moon will travel further.
The Moon completes its orbit around the Earth in approximately 27.3 days (which is also called a sidereal month).
407,000 kmThe distance between the Moon and the Earth varies from around 356,400 km to 406,700 km at the extreme perigees (closest) and apogees (farthest).
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Weight is the gravitational force exerted on an object. Your mass is the same on earth and the moon or anywhere else. Your weight depends on the gravitational force exerted on your mass and hence on your location.
The moon spins quite slowly, about once each 27 days, this monthly rate of spin matches the rate at which the moon revolves about the Eath.
The Moon will drift farther and farther from Earth, while Earth slows down, until Earth always shows the Moon the same face (just as the Moon already shows Earth the same face all the time). It doesn't seem that the Moon will completely escape from Earth's gravity.
It doesn't look like the Moon will hit Earth any time soon. In fact, it is gradually getting farther and farther away from Earth.
Definitely the SUN. If the sun were where the moon is in relation to the earth, the earth would be consumed by the sun.
Find the distance from the earth to the moon, then the the distance from the earth to the sun, and simply subtract the both.
Mars is tremendously farther away from the Earth than the moon is.
The moon is moving further away by 1.5cm from the Earth every year.
The moon is about 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles) from Earth, and about 4,564 million kilometers (2,835 million miles) from Neptune. So, the moon is much closer to the Earth, Neptune over 10,000 times farther away.
The sun is about 390 times farther from earth than the moon is.
Not much further than it is from yours.
The Earth travels 365.25 times farther than the moon in one revolution. The moon's revolution around the Earth takes only one day; the Earth's revolution around the Sun takes 365.25 days.
No. The moon is the closest astronomical object to Earth. The closest star to Earth is the sun, which is about 400 times farther away than the moon. The next nearest star is more than 260,000 times farther away than the sun.
The sun is the largest in size compared to the moon and Earth. It has a diameter about 109 times that of Earth and is about 400 times farther away from Earth than the moon is.