･ Equatorial radius is 1,738.14 km or 1,080 miles ･ Equatorial diameter is 3,476.28 km or 2,160 miles ･ Surface area is 3.793 x 10 7 km 2 ･ Volume is 2.195 8 × 10 10 km³ ･ Mass is 7.734 x 10 22 kg ･ Gravity is 1.622 m/s 2
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You Asked; How big is the moon? — Deepan, Vadodara, India ... So the moon is definitely smaller than the earth. But is is still fairly big in terms of area. A sphere that is 2,160 miles in diameter has an area of about 14.7 million square miles. All of North America (which ... Home > Keep Asking > How big is the moon?
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blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/06/12/how-big-is-the-moon/
blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/06/12/how-big-is-the-moon/
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The Earth may only have one Moon, but it's a big one! The Earth's Moon is the fifth largest in the whole solar system. But it is still smaller than the Earth, so objects weigh less on the Moon than they do here. That's why the astronauts could enjoy bouncing around on the lunar surface.
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Shown here in their correct relative sizes are a Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars, a Galileo image of Ganymede, a Mariner 10 mosaic of Mercury (the smooth stripe represents an area of missing data), and a Galileo spacecraft picture of the Moon.
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science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast23may_1.htm
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Pluto has suffered another demotion with scientists discovering a very bright, icy body possibly even larger than the tiny ice-planet's moon Charon and orbiting the Sun in the same celestial neighborhood. ... Big Moon-Sized Object Found Beyond Neptune ; By SPACE.com Staff; posted: 03:03 pm ET; 02 July 2001;
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www.space.com/science/solarsystem/big_kuiper_object_010...
www.space.com/science/solarsystem/big_kuiper_object_010702.html
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Earth and Moon to Scale ... If you could fly to the Moon at a constant speed of 1000 kilometers per hour, which is the speed of a fast passenger jet, it would take sixteen days to get there. Apollo astronauts reached the Moon in less than four days even though they coasted "uphill" almost the entire distance.
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www.freemars.org/jeff/planets/Luna/Luna.htm
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For the past few nights the moon has appeared larger than many people have seen it for almost 20 years. It is the world's largest optical illusion, and one of its most enduring mysteries.
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4619063.stm
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Sizing the Moon ... With the technology available to you at that time - pretty much what you probably have around your present house other than books and computers and TV and radio - how could you determine how big the moon is? Answering this question requires you to do several projects - each one adding a piece to the puzzle.
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www.science-projects.com/Astro/Moon.htm
www.science-projects.com/Astro/Moon.htm
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How big is the Moon? About 2200 miles (3500 km), one quarter of Earth diameter. ... Gallery > Moonrise > How big is the Moon? ... The others pictures of "Moon experiences"
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