How many kilometers is Luna away from earth?

Answer 1

The distance varies somewhat, during the course of a month and also during the course of a year.

It averages out to about 93 million miles.

The moon's average distance from the sun is the same as the earth's average distance from the sun. When you think about it... the moon orbits around the earth, so it's closer to the sun half the time, and farther from the sun half the time... averaging out to the same distance from the sun as the earth is.

In any case, the moon averages 238,000 miles from the earth, which is less than 1/4 million, and that doesn't make much difference compared to the 93 million average between the earth and the sun... less than 1/4 of 1 percent.
Half the time behind the earth, half the time in front of the earth,

averaging same as earth ... about 238,000 miles.

Answer 2

The Moon, on average, is about 150 million kilometers away from the Sun. That's actually an interesting coincidence, since the Earth orbits about 150 million kilometers away from the Sun. What? Well, the Moon orbits the Earth, so it's following the Earth around in its orbit around the Sun.

Now, we can actually get a little more precise here. The Earth actually takes an elliptical path around the Sun. It ranges in distance from 147 million km to 152 million km. So the Moon can actually range in this distance as well.

But wait, we can get even more precise. The Moon takes an elliptical orbit around the Earth. Sometimes it gets as close as 363,000 km, and other times it gets as far as 406,000 km.

So the closest point that the Moon can get to the Sun is when the Earth is at its closest point in orbit, and the Moon is most distant from the Earth. The closest point that the Moon can actually get to the Sun is 146,692,378 km

Answer 3

Roughly 30 earth diameters (or approx 60 earth radius). The Greeks figured this out around 400 BCE, by timing earth's shadow as it passed across the moon during a lunar eclipse, in comparision to the lunar month.

Answer 4

Let's see... one billion miles..... One AU, the distance from the Earth to the Sun, is 93 million miles, so one billion miles is 10.7 AU.

Jupiter is at 5.2 AU from the Sun, while Saturn averages 14.7 AU from the Sun. So "one billion miles from Earth" is somewhere between 9 and 12 AU from the Sun (because the Earth is going around the Sun, too.)

Nope; nothing much out there. Some asteroids and comets pass through that area, but because of the gravitational influences of Jupiter and Saturn, there aren't any stable orbits there for the long term.

Answer 5

It averages out to the same as the distance from the sun to the earth ... about 93 million miles.

The reason why the moon's average distance is the same as the earth's: As the moon appears

to revolve around the earth, it's closer to the sun than we are for half the time, and farther from

it the rest of the time.

Answer 6

the distance between "luna" and the sun varies between the time of year and the time of day but for the most part it is approx. the same distance as the earth is from the sun which is 1.496 x 1011metres (149 million kilometres or 92.58 million miles).

Answer 7

Same as the distance from Sun to Earth. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is insignificant compared to the distance to the Sun. Besides, the Moon will sometimes be closer to the Sun than Earth, sometimes farther away, but on average, it should be almost the same.

Same as the distance from Sun to Earth. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is insignificant compared to the distance to the Sun. Besides, the Moon will sometimes be closer to the Sun than Earth, sometimes farther away, but on average, it should be almost the same.

Same as the distance from Sun to Earth. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is insignificant compared to the distance to the Sun. Besides, the Moon will sometimes be closer to the Sun than Earth, sometimes farther away, but on average, it should be almost the same.

Same as the distance from Sun to Earth. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is insignificant compared to the distance to the Sun. Besides, the Moon will sometimes be closer to the Sun than Earth, sometimes farther away, but on average, it should be almost the same.

Answer 8

The Earth is more than 93 million miles from the Sun for about one-half of its orbit, and closer than 93 million miles for the other half (elliptical orbit). The minimum is at perihelionin January (147 million km or 91.3 million miles) and the maximum is at aphelion in July (152 million km or 94.4 million miles). As to when the earth is exactly 93 million miles from the Sun, this would occur at two points in the Earth's orbit. By extrapolation, these two points would occur sometime in April and October of each year.

Answer 9

Same as the distance from Sun to Earth. The distance between the Earth and the Moon is insignificant compared to the distance to the Sun. Besides, the Moon will sometimes be closer to the Sun than Earth, sometimes farther away, but on average, it should be almost the same.

Answer 10

It's 384.400 Kilometers and it goes 31mm away every year