Search wiki using Sphinx
From The Space Library
Displaying 1—10 of 1000 matches for query "09._How_far_away_from_Earth_is_the_Moon" retrieved in 0.025 sec with these stats:
- "09" found 1688 times in 893 documents
- "how" found 9066 times in 2689 documents
- "far" found 2720 times in 1660 documents
- "away" found 1956 times in 1145 documents
- "from" found 51787 times in 14609 documents
- "earth" found 21084 times in 7977 documents
- "is" found 42921 times in 8383 documents
- "the" found 506435 times in 20589 documents
- "moon" found 11511 times in 3952 documents
... is because its orbit is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse, so sometimes it's closer (at perigee) and sometimes farther away (apogee). http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (See CDROM)
----
Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the ...
The North Star, also known as Polaris, is about 400 light years away. If there were a highway from Earth to Polaris with a 75 mile per hour (mph) speed limit, it would take over ... .
----
Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer
Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...
The 24 Apollo astronauts who circled the Moon in the period from 1968 to 1972 went the greatest distance from Earth—about 240,000 miles. Some astronauts have traveled further in space since then, but only by going around and around the Earth ...
There is no real physical limit to where they can go, but electronic components tend to wear ... get there—and it is pretty tough finding a repair person out there
----
Answer provided by Derek Webber
Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space ...
... are very far away, from a few light years to many thousands of light years. The star Proxima Centauri, the closest star outside of our solar system, is a little over four light years away.
----
Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book ...
... the precious thin atmosphere behind. If the Earth were a grape, then the atmosphere would be as thin as its skin.
----
Answer provided by Derek Webber
Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the ...
We orbit the Earth approximately 230 miles up.
----
Answer provided by Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory
Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie ...
Because the planets in our solar system are always moving in orbit around our Sun, the distance to Uranus is constantly changing. When Earth and Uranus are at their closest point together, on the same side of the Sun, they are about 1,604,318,281 miles apart. When they are at their furthest point from each ...
... round figures, it is 240,000 miles, and took the Apollo astronauts three days to get from the Earth to the Moon.
----
Answer provided by Derek Webber
Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids ...
... . How far is it from one side of the paper to the other? The sides of the paper are the thickness of the paper apart, but you would have to travel about eight inches to get to the edge of the paper ... inch away. If your paper is infinite you won't be able to get to the other side, even though it is very close. Alternate universes may be that close and that far away at the same ...
Additional database time was 0.035 sec.
| Result page: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next |
Powered by Sphinx
