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Thursday, April 24th, 2008Today, the average distance to the moon is 238,856 miles.
There are two interesting things to note in that answer. First, note the word “average.” Remember that the Moon’s orbit is elliptical and not perfectly circular so the distance varies by as much as 26,000+ miles. To put that into perspective, the distance of the Moon […]