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How Far is the Moon From Earth

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My son 5y asked me today. Eclipses Earths ocean tides result from an intricate dance of forces and motions. As The Earth And Moon Orbit The Sun Together The Moon Goes Through Several Phases Space Com Explains The 8 Major Named Phas Moon Facts Moon Orbit Moon Phases Over 500000 objects the size of a marble -- big. . The energy required to melt the outer portion of the Moon is commonly attributed to a giant. The colliding body is sometimes called Theia from the name of the. The giant-impact hypothesis sometimes called the Big Splash or the Theia Impact suggests that the Moon formed from the ejecta of a collision between the proto-Earth and a Mars-sized planet approximately 45 billion years ago in the Hadean eon about 20 to 100 million years after the Solar System coalesced. The Moon of course has been known since prehistoric times. And then theres everything in between. Pluto is on average 395 AU or 59 billion km 37 billion ...