The average distance between the Moon and the Earth is ___ km.

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The Moon orbits around the Earth in an elliptical orbit, so the distance between them varies with time.
The average distance between Moon and Earth is 384400 km.

The distance between objects in the Universe is usually huge. 384400 km is very small when compared to the distances between different stars and different galaxies.

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