How many miles from planet Earth to our moon?

Question

I am thinking that it is about 250,000. If that is the case then a beam of laser light which travels at 186,000 miles per second would take just over 2 seconds to get there and back to Earth. The reason I asked, is that i saw a documentary about the Apollo missions and on one of them they left a mirror or reflector which scientists still use to reflect laser beams back to Earth. They claimed that the moon's orbit is moving out away from Earth about 1-inch per year. I assume that means that if the moon is 4-billion years-old, then it has moved away from the Earth about four billion inches since it first formed. 4,000,000,000/12 = 333,333,333 feet or 333,333,333/5280 feet in a mile = 63,131 miles further from the Earth than when it was first formed. Anyone know the moon's present distance from Earth?

I asked for the distance in miles. Would you mind converting from kilometers to miles. I do not have an advanced astrophysics education or engineering degree. What is the average mean in miles?

Answer 1

Approximately 238,855.086 miles (384,400 kilometers).

Answer 2

I'll take your word for that, but yes the moon is about a ¼ million miles from Earth.
The Sun 94, or about 8 light minutes.

Answer 3

It is about 250,000 miles from Earth to the moon.

Answer 4

The Earth-Moon distance varies from 363,300 km to 405,500 km (apogee and perigee). The mean distance is 384,400 km.

Answer 5

Yep!

Answer 6

241,099.00 miles perhour

Answer 7

240,000 miles.

Answer 8

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