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> While the moon is an estimated 2,159 miles (3,475 km) in diameter [...]

Is the article implying that we don't know the Moon's (I assume they're referring to the capital-M one) diameter to at least kilometer-precision...?


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mattficke10/01/2024

It’s an irregularly shaped body so there’s not one single radius. Mean radius is always going to be an approximation (even for Earth); the mean radius of the Moon is 1,737.4 km.

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