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It really boggles the mind that people travelled that far and stood on it. Geostationary orbit is 26,199 miles away from Earth. That's about 12.7% ( about 1/8 ) of the distance to the moon, which is 230,100 miles away. What's even better is that you could fit all the planets side-by-side into that gap.
It’s a complete coincidence that the moon is the right size and distance to appear almost exactly the same size as the sun from our vantage point. The iconic total eclipse with the slight ring of light around its edge is unique among the terrestrial planets in our solar system.
Old. Q&A. The-Unkindness. •. Fun fact. EVERY planet can fit side by side between earth and the moon. Obviously the moon's orbit is elliptical, so no, at its closest this is a false statement. But at its average distance, there something like 2500km to spare. And at its furthest there's a ton of extra room.
What is Ganymede's Distance to Earth? Ganymede's distance to Earth is around 628.3 million kilometers (390 million miles). By comparison, Earth's moon is approximately 239,000 miles away.
The moon doesn't have a particularly large effect on objects orbiting so close to the earth. The sun's gravity at 1AU is almost 200 times stronger than the moon's gravity at its average distance from earth, just to put things in perspective of how little the moon matters to small objects near earth.
Within the Earth's solar system we often use Astronomical Units as a measure of distance, with the Earth being 1 AU from the Sun. A light-year is often used to measure longer distances and there are about 63,000 AU in a single light year.
In Metric: If the Earth were shrunk down to the size of a basketball (radius:11.9126 cm) the Moon would be a tennis ball (radius: 3.243072 cm, to be exact) 7.1628 meters away. The Sun would be a 13-meter sphere ( source) located 2.73588 km away. The closest star, Proxima Centauri, would still be 745369.2829 km away – almost twice the distance ...
The average Earth-moon distance is 3.8 times 10^8 m. During the total eclipse of the sun, the moon just obscures the sun. The distance from the earth to the moon is 3.84 \times 10^8 m and the distance from the earth to the sun is 1.50 \times 10^{11} m. Estimate the ratio of the diameter of the sun to the mo
Given that the Moon's period about the Earth is 27.32 days and the distance from the Earth to the Moon is 3.84 10 8 m 3.84 108m estimate the mass of the Earth. Assume the orbit is circular. On the way to the moon, the Apollo astronauts reach a point, where the Moon's gravitational pull is stronger than that of Earth s.
So it's about 30 earth diameters away. If it takes an object in LEO about 90 minutes to make an orbit, that means it's going about 1 earth diameter in 30 minutes, or 2 earth diameters in 1 hour. So travelling at the same speed to the moon, it would take 15 hours. That feels close.