• Question: How big is the moon?

    Asked by RoRo to Susan on 20 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Susan Cartwright

      Susan Cartwright answered on 20 Jun 2015:


      It’s 3474 km in diameter (that’s 0.273 times as big as the Earth) and 73.48 thousand million million million kg in mass (7.348 x 10^22 kg in scientific notation), which is 1/81 times the Earth’s mass.

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