Is the Sun closer to the Earth than the Moon?

The moons current orbital distance, making it appear exactly the same size as the sun from earth, has only been such for the last few hundred thousand years. When the Earth first formed, the moon's orbit was much closer than it is today. At that time an Earth day was much shorter, only eight hours. read more

Moon is closer to earth than sun. Reason.. Distance between earth and sun =149.6 million km. Distance between earth and moon =384,400 km. (For such type of question Google is there so its better to take help from Google rather than asking on Quora ). Thanx. read more

The moon is smaller than the earth, and orbits the earth. The two together are the “earth-moon system”. The earth-moon system orbits the sun at a HUGE distance, and the sun is absolutely freakn’ gigantic. It is so gigantic, and so far away, that from our perspective on Earth it looks about the same size as the moon. read more