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-|+Earth's Moon: Facts  & Figures
-!colspan=2 align=center|Physical Characteristics
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-|Mean circumference||10,917.0 km
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-|Mean radius||1,737.5 km
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-|Mass||7.3477×10<sup>22</sup> kg
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-|Volume||2.197×10<sup>10</sup> km<sup>3</sup>
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-|Density||3.344 g/cm<sup>3</sup>
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-|Surface area||3.79367×10<sup>7</sup> km<sup>2</sup>
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-|Surface gravity||1.624 m/s<sup>2</sup>
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-|Escape velocity||2,376 m/s
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-!colspan=2 align=center|Rotational and Orbital Characteristics
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-|'''Distance from Earth:'''<br/>Average<br>Apogee (farthest)<br/>Perigee (closest)||<br/>384,400 km<br/>405,696 km<br/>363,104 km
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-|Rotation velocity around own axis||4.6246 m/s
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-|Rotation period around own axis<br/>(length of Moon day)||655.73 hours<br/>27.322 Earth days
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-|Orbit distance around the Earth||2.4134×10<sup>6</sup> km
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-|Orbit velocity around the Earth||1.0224 km/s
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-|Orbit period around the Earth<br/>(length of "Moon year")<sup> (a)</sup>||655.73 hours<br/>27.322 Earth days
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-|Orbit period around the Sun||365 Earth days<br/>13.359 Moon days
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-|colspan=2|(a) Defining a celestial body's length of year as the<br/>time that it takes for the celestial body to travel the<br/>distance of its orbit around a larger celestial body. In<br/> other words, the orbit period of the Moon around the<br/>Earth is the Moon's length of year
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