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Help!!! 10 points!!!What Astronomical Unit would I use to measure the distance between the Earth and the Moon?

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The lunar distance is approximately 400000 km, or a quarter of a million miles. The mean semi-major axis has a value of 384,402 km (238,856 mi). The time-averaged distance between Earth and Moon centers is 385,000.6 km (239,228.3 mi).

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Lunar distance

English units 238856 mi

Astronomical unit 0.002569 au

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