Is the moon smaller then earth?

Question

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Answer 1

are you serious ??!!

Answer 2

Yes

Answer 3

well of course its six times smaller than earth dummy! no offense . the moon orbits earth if it were bigger it'd give a more powerfull gravitational pull  and we or it woul fall out of orbit and crash down to Earth and we'd all die lol

Answer 4

of course it is, check out wikipedia for more info man.

Answer 5

Of course for heaven's sake! What about next asking if the Sun rotates around each and every planet???

Answer 6

yes and it has green men living on it

Answer 7

It was, the last time I looked. Yes.

Answer 8

The radius of the moon is roughly 1740 km.

Earth's is 6378 km.

So yeah, Earth is pretty much bigger.

Answer 9

About 1/6th the size of the Earth

Answer 10

Yep

Answer 11

http://www.freemars.org/jeff/planets/Lun...

This site will show you that the mean diameter of the earth is a good bit greater than that of the moon.

Answer 12

Earth is 7960mls diameter, the moon is around 2200mls dia. orbiting approx. 240,000mls out.

Answer 13

I can only assume you're not being serious.

Answer 14

Yes it is.

Answer 15

Yes, and it is a satellite.

Answer 16

Yes, the moon is smaller than the Earth.

The Earth's one natural satellite, the Moon, is more than one quarter the size of Earth itself (3,474 km diameter).

Answer 17

yes the moon is smaller,The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The Moon's diameter is 3,474 km, than the earth

Answer 18

not to be rude or think your dumb

YES,duh

Answer 19

if it was'nt Earth would be the moon.

Answer 20

Yes it is. Not sure of the sizes.

Answer 21

Um yuppers

Answer 22

go to this wbe-site, it will give more detail in comparsion of the two.

http://www.freemars.org/jeff/planets/Lun...

but yes, the moon is smaller than earth.

                                 Earth                               Moon

Mean diameter      12,742 km                      3,476 km

Volume                   1.08321 x 1012 km3     2.199 x 1010 km3

Mass                       5.9736 x 1024 kg          7.349 x 1022 kg

Mean density          5.515                               3.342

Surface gravity       9.78 m/s2                       1.62 m/s2

Escape velocity     11.2 km/s                        2.38 km/s

Visual albedo         0.367                               0.12

Visual magnitude  -3.86                                +0.21