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Question
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The Earth’s moon is ____
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always much closer to the Sun than it is to the Earth
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always much closer to the Earth than it is to the Sun
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about the same distance from the Sun as it is from the Earth
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sometimes closer to the Sun than it is to the Earth, and sometimes closer to the Earth than it is to the Sun
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Although the sun is 27 million times more massive than the moon, it is 390 times further away from the Earth than the moon.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reason is that the diameter of the Sun is 400 times greater than the diameter of the Moon, but the Sun is 400 times further away. But, sometimes one is a bit larger than the other because the Moon has an elliptical orbit around the Earth and the Earth has an elliptical orbit around the Sun.
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