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Distance to the moon
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How many miles is it to the moon?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.As the Earth is an oblate spheroid (fatter in the middle), the moon's orbit is not precisely circular and concentric with the Earth, and the moon wobbles in its orbit around the Earth there is no fixed distance.
See http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/moon.html and
http://www.freemars.org/jeff/planets/Luna/Luna.htm
for some more information. Bernardo's figure is the average distance, however, the distance varies by about 17%.