The moon is enormously far away, it's rare for the Earth to line up so perfectly. The moon is 1/3 the size of Earth, and is 30 Earth diameters away.
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The moon is enormously far away, it's rare for the Earth to line up so perfectly. The moon is 1/3 the size of Earth, and is 30 Earth diameters away.