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...and also Wikipedia has a similar picture...
one doesn't need to do anything more than measure the earth-distances between the two to tell that izismile's statement is rubbish. the earth and moon are NOT ~40 earth-distances apart, period. not even close.
#1 has to be right.
Earth's diameter is 12756 kms.
400000 / 12756 ~ 31.4
In my system the diameter of the earth on this picture is ~20. The distance to the moon is ~580. This means the distance is ~29 earth diameters, which would be ~370000. The real distance is between 363.300 and 405.500 km.
Thanks for your attention.
did a little checking, and by comparison, the planet that comes closest to earth is venus at a near-distance of 38m kms. therefore it would be almost 3000 earth-diameters distant from earth, or a hundred times greater than the distance to the moon.
i guess i was getting the moon and the planets mixed up, in a sense.