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The distance between the Moon and Earth varies from around 356,400 km (221,500 mi) to 406,700 km (252,700 mi) (apogee), making the Moon's distance and apparent size fluctuate up to 14%. [ 202 ] [ 203 ] On average the Moon's angular diameter is about 0.52°, roughly the same apparent size as the Sun (see § Eclipses ).
1 km – very approximate size of the smallest-known moons of Jupiter; 1.4 km – diameter of Dactyl, the first confirmed asteroid moon; 4.8 km – diameter of 5535 Annefrank, an inner belt asteroid; 5 km – diameter of 3753 Cruithne; 5 km – length of PSR B1257+12; 8 km – diameter of Themisto, one of Jupiter's moons
The large pulse on the left is the transmitted signal, the small pulse on the right is the return signal from the Moon. The horizontal axis is time, but is calibrated in miles. It can be seen that the measured range is 238,000 mi (383,000 km), approximately the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
The impact crater is more than 5 miles (8 kilometers) deep. ... a mission which aims to land humans on the moon for the first time since 1972. “For all of human history, humans have been able to ...
The book On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, which is ascribed to Aristarchus, says the distance to the Sun is 18 to 20 times the distance to the Moon, whereas the true ratio is about 389.174. The latter estimate was based on the angle between the half-moon and the Sun, which he estimated as 87° (the true value being close to 89.853°
The largest unit for expressing distances across space at that time was the astronomical unit, equal to the radius of the Earth's orbit at 150 million kilometres (93 million miles). In those terms, trigonometric calculations based on 61 Cygni's parallax of 0.314 arcseconds, showed the distance to the star to be 660 000 astronomical units (9.9 ...
The diameter is normally in the range of 15–25 km (9.3–16 mi). The archetype is Sosigenes. TRI — these complex craters are large enough so that their inner walls have slumped to the floor. They can range in size from 15–50 km (9.3–31 mi) in diameter. The archetype crater is Triesnecker.
Size comparison between Phobos, Deimos and the Moon (right) Deimos is a gray-colored body. Like most bodies of its size, Deimos is highly non-spherical with triaxial dimensions of 16.1 km × 11.8 km × 10.2 km (10.0 mi × 7.3 mi × 6.3 mi), corresponding to a mean diameter of 12.5 km (7.8 mi) which makes it about 57% the size of Phobos. [7]