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How Far Apart Are the Moon and the Earth?

Season 1 Episode 6

Demonstration finding the distance between the moon and the Earth.

The volunteers are given scale models of the moon and Earth. They must guess the distance between the two and then work out how to find out the correct answer. They use the moon in the sky to find the distance between their two models.

AIR DATE 5/31/16

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