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14,640,607
mi˛ surface area (37,919,000 km˛) vs. Earth with 196,937,429mi˛
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The “Moon
ABCs Fact Sheet” lists the Earth's diameter as 12,756 km and the Moon's
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diameter
as 3,476 km. Therefore, the Moon's diameter is 27.25% of Earth's diameter.
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An
official basketball has a diameter of 24 cm. This can serve as a model for
Earth. A
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tennis
ball has a diameter of 6.9 cm which is close to 27.25% of the basketball.
(The
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tennis
ball is actually 28.8% the size of the basketball.) These values are very
close to
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the size
relationship between Earth and the Moon. The tennis ball, therefore, can be
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used as a
model of the Moon.
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Info
source:
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http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/education/activities/expmoon/distancemoon.pdf
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Image
source: (CreationWiki)
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http://creationwiki.org/Moon
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