Distance to the moon

[DJS]

it's like me saying that the earth is 186,000 miles from the moon and you saying that it's a million miles away...we both can't be right. One of us is wrong.

While people are off hijacking threads and turning them into, "My Christ is Better than Your Christ" debates, I'd just like to point out that the mean distance to the moon is really about 240,000 miles.

 

[DJS]

Whoops!

Was aiming to put that in that other thread. Oh well.

 

[Typhoon1244]

...I'd just like to point out that the mean distance to the moon is really about 240,000 miles.

I respectfully submit that...

(1) It's probably not that round a number, and...

(2) It varies slightly from time to time.

But that would be picking nits, I guess...

 

[Timebuilder]

I agree with you, Typhoon.

They must have a pretty good idea of the actual distance from time to time, since they once did an experiment that involved bouncing a laser off a panel left on the moon by Apollo and calculated some sort of formula that had something to do with Einstein's work. I wish I could remember the whole thing.

I would think the distance would have to vary a little. How likely is it the moon's orbit would be perfectly circular?

 

[dispatchguy]

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But that would be picking nits, I guess...

You could get some Stridex and take care o that

 

[crowbar]

You can tell by looking up at it, it's only about two hundred miles.

 

[46Driver]

Actually, "its up there very high, but not as high as dirigibles or zeppelins or lightbulbs....." www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

 

[saabtrash]

Crowbar, she really isn't that great (maybe it's the bike) but I sure wanna **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** your girlfriend.

 

[DJS]

Yep, it varies

Check out this site for more than you ever wanted to know about how far the moon is. It varies from 359000 km to about 405000 km and, like all orbits, is elliptical.

Google says that's 223,072 miles at perigee to 251,350 miles at apogee.

Whee. Fun with numbers.

 

[crowbar]

Crowbar, she really isn't that great (maybe it's the bike) but I sure wanna **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** your girlfriend.

What the **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** do you mean she ain't that great, YOU'RE CRUISIN FOR A BRUISIN.

 

[ClassG]

Crowbar:

TRUTHFULLY. You take that picture yourself?

If you ever want to give either one of them up, I'll take her.

ClassG.

 

[I Hate Freight]

Re: Re: Distance to the moon

I respectfully submit that...

(1) It's probably not that round a number, and...

(2) It varies slightly from time to time.

But that would be picking nits, I guess...

I think that's why he said "about" 240,000 miles.

I HATE FREIGHT!

 

[Typhoon1244]

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I think that's why he said "about" 240,000 miles.

Hey man, this is aviation. "About" doesn't cut it. You don't land on "about" runway 17-Left, do you?

 

[Jmmccutc]

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Hey man, this is aviation. "About" doesn't cut it. You don't land on "about" runway 17-Left, do you?

i don't know who you're trying to fool, but i just try and get it as close as i can, sometimes i actually find pavement...

 

[TonyC]

... I'd just like to point out that the mean distance to the moon is really about 240,000 miles.

What's the nice distance?

 

[TonyC]

Re: Yep, it varies

It varies from 359000 km to about 405000 km and, like all orbits, is elliptical.

Google says that's 223,072 miles at perigee to 251,350 miles at apogee.

Whee. Fun with numbers.

Yo're fixin' to git in a whooooole heep 'o trouble by mixin' dem English numbers wif dem dess'mals like dat. I heered dem fancy siuntists down dar in that space camp place dun mixed up dem numbers like dat and dun went and missed Mars wif som hi-falootin' spensive spaceship thang. Yupp, dun raised our taxes cuz of it, too. Dem km's scare da patoot out of me now.

 

[V-1]

I would think the distance would have to vary a little. How likely is it the moon's orbit would be perfectly circular?

Whatever happened to that guy who always posted definitions of words people don't understand. Remember him? If he were here he'd post something like this:

Mean

(1) The average of a group or category.

(2) A characteristic trait of one's personality.

(3) The difference between your sister's friend, who wouldn't sleep with you, and the mentally challenged girl across the street who would.

He was better at it than I. Whatever happened to him?

 

[sky37d]

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Hey man, this is aviation. "About" doesn't cut it. You don't land on "about" runway 17-Left, do you?

well, sometimes I do

 

[Timebuilder]

I think the distance that is more "mean" is the longer, apogee distance.

 

[Typhoon1244]

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What's the nice distance?

Heh heh. Very punny.