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I removed a See also link: Nevil Maskelyne. He worked on Lunar distance (navigation) which is an angle, not the distance to the Moon. Bubba73 (talk), 04:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
I saw a tv show where it said that the Moon was during the dinosaur era much closer to Earth, making the days shorter. I can´t find nothing of this. I don's peak english very well.-- Comu_nacho (spanish speaker) ( talk) 18:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Everything in this article is covered by other articles on the Moon, two of which (Orbit of the Moon, Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment) are even linked from this article. treesmill ( talk) 20:06, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Does "the distance from the Earth to the moon" mean the distance between their centres?
The article states that the Moon is spiraling away from the Earth at an average rate of 3.8 cm per year. With this level of achievable accuracy, why is the Lunar Distance specified to the nearest kilometer and not, say, to the nearest meter?
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It is stated by the lunar laser ranging experiment that the mean lunar distance can be measured to sub-millimeter precision. Can anybody find a reference to a sub-mm 384402XXX.XXXX +/- 0.000Y (+3.8cm/yr) value? Hadron137 ( talk) 19:21, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Sub-mm is wrong. I changed it. LunaJim ( talk) 17:24, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
The least and greatest distances of the moon from the earth are roughly in the ratio of 7:8. The images of the moon at least and greatest distance, in the article, seem to be more like 4:5. The ratio of the apparent diameters should equal the ratio of lest to greatest distances. So the images shown seem to be in error. ClarkoEye ( talk) 00:55, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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A number of vehicles have been sent to the moon, with some orbiting as satellites today. The most dramatic lunar orbits have been the manned missions between 1968 and 1972. All communications experience(d) predictable radio delays which align(ed) with established distances. The delay is not extraordinary but the communication distance is still notable, and the manned missions are so far the only times that people have measured the moon distance when holding both ends of the metaphorical tape measure. I was expecting that there would be a mention here about radio / light distance and timing; when I find this elsewhere I might add this sub-section. -- GeeBee60 ( talk) 12:48, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Can you explain this? Or too technical?
Article says;
I get 10 billion from;
I presume the rate started (much) higher, and has diminished to 3.8 cm/yr.
Why would it accelerate?
What “should” the rate be if it started 4.5 billion years ago?
A table with days in a year, and distance to moon (since year 0), would be nice. Like this Day#Longitudinal_change.
MBG02 ( talk) 06:42, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Frostly ( talk) 02:30, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
– Appears to be the primary topic of "Lunar distance". As seen from and compared on two Wikinav pages, the one for astronomy has far more traffic than the one for navigation. A hatnote should be put on the page after the move. What do we think here? Wikiexplorationandhelping ( talk) 22:25, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
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I removed a See also link: Nevil Maskelyne. He worked on Lunar distance (navigation) which is an angle, not the distance to the Moon. Bubba73 (talk), 04:32, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
I saw a tv show where it said that the Moon was during the dinosaur era much closer to Earth, making the days shorter. I can´t find nothing of this. I don's peak english very well.-- Comu_nacho (spanish speaker) ( talk) 18:48, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
Everything in this article is covered by other articles on the Moon, two of which (Orbit of the Moon, Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment) are even linked from this article. treesmill ( talk) 20:06, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
Does "the distance from the Earth to the moon" mean the distance between their centres?
The article states that the Moon is spiraling away from the Earth at an average rate of 3.8 cm per year. With this level of achievable accuracy, why is the Lunar Distance specified to the nearest kilometer and not, say, to the nearest meter?
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It is stated by the lunar laser ranging experiment that the mean lunar distance can be measured to sub-millimeter precision. Can anybody find a reference to a sub-mm 384402XXX.XXXX +/- 0.000Y (+3.8cm/yr) value? Hadron137 ( talk) 19:21, 26 April 2016 (UTC)
Sub-mm is wrong. I changed it. LunaJim ( talk) 17:24, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
The least and greatest distances of the moon from the earth are roughly in the ratio of 7:8. The images of the moon at least and greatest distance, in the article, seem to be more like 4:5. The ratio of the apparent diameters should equal the ratio of lest to greatest distances. So the images shown seem to be in error. ClarkoEye ( talk) 00:55, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
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A number of vehicles have been sent to the moon, with some orbiting as satellites today. The most dramatic lunar orbits have been the manned missions between 1968 and 1972. All communications experience(d) predictable radio delays which align(ed) with established distances. The delay is not extraordinary but the communication distance is still notable, and the manned missions are so far the only times that people have measured the moon distance when holding both ends of the metaphorical tape measure. I was expecting that there would be a mention here about radio / light distance and timing; when I find this elsewhere I might add this sub-section. -- GeeBee60 ( talk) 12:48, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
Can you explain this? Or too technical?
Article says;
I get 10 billion from;
I presume the rate started (much) higher, and has diminished to 3.8 cm/yr.
Why would it accelerate?
What “should” the rate be if it started 4.5 billion years ago?
A table with days in a year, and distance to moon (since year 0), would be nice. Like this Day#Longitudinal_change.
MBG02 ( talk) 06:42, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Frostly ( talk) 02:30, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
– Appears to be the primary topic of "Lunar distance". As seen from and compared on two Wikinav pages, the one for astronomy has far more traffic than the one for navigation. A hatnote should be put on the page after the move. What do we think here? Wikiexplorationandhelping ( talk) 22:25, 23 September 2023 (UTC)