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edit30 times diameter of earth yet next paragraph its one quarter the size of earth???? also isnt the sun a natural orbit of earth as wel as te moon..yet you say the moon is the only natural orbit.81.170.66.75 (talk) 07:58, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- The Moon's orbit is about 30 times Earth's diameter. The Moon's diameter is about 1/4 of Earth's diameter. And no, the Sun does not rotate around Earth so it is not a natural satellite of the Earth. Meters (talk) 08:23, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- got it, thanks 81.170.66.75 (talk) 21:59, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
Mass of the Moon needs to be fixed
edit5.972168e24 kg (mass of the Earth from the Wikipedia entry for Earth)
x 0.0123 (ratio of Moon to Earth, agrees with IAU recommendation of 0.0123000371)
= 7.3457664e22 kg (mass of Moon)
or 7.346e22 kg (keeping the same sig. fig. as is currently on the page)
IAU Division I Working Group, Numerical Standards for Fundamental Astronomy, Astronomical Constants, Current Best Estimates (CBEs) https://iau-a3.gitlab.io/NSFA/NSFA_cbe.html Elert (talk) 11:52, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- As far as I can tell from both the cited sources and direct calculations like those above, the current stated figure of 7.342 × 1022 is indeed just slightly wrong, and was first (I presume accidentally, as a typo) introduced in this 2015 edit. Remsense 诉 18:34, 14 August 2024 (UTC)