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Old 23-04-2010, 04:31 PM
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Q:Distance of planets/moon

When we talk about mean distance within the solar system in astronomical terms, for example distance of moon from earth is 384403 km,are we measuring from surface to surface or centre to centre?
I cannot get an answer even in Wikipedia.
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