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Old 14-January-2003, 12:42 AM
Peter B Peter B is offline
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Do the maths. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

The Moon is about 380,000 kilometres from the Earth.

The *nearest* star (apart from the Sun) is over 40,000,000,000,000 kilometres from Earth. That means that when the Moon is between the Earth and that star, it's only 39,999,999,620,000 kilometres from that star.

As you can see, the difference is negligible. (And that's the star that's only 4.5 light years from Earth, let alone the others that are hundreds or thousands of light years away.)
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