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The distance to the moon is an easy thing to look up nowadays and with lasers and corner reflectors left on the moon from the Apollo missions the accepted values for the lunar orbit are very well defined. However, the distance to the moon has been known for thousands of years and with only a few assumptions you can still calculate this distance if you simply take a couple of measurements during a lunar eclipse.

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Linkography:

http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lu...

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