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Question
the radius of the moon's orbit is about how many times larger than the radius of Earth?
Hi Libby,
The radius (mean) of the moons orbit is 384400 km.
The earth's radius is 6377.88 km
So your ratio comes to 384400/6377.88 = 60.270811 !
That is quite close to nice round figure of 60!
If you are interested, look up the site:-
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/moon.htm and
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/moonfact.html
for all the moon facts.
Jayen.
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Jayendra Upadhye
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