Earth’s Moon, By the Numbers
Compare key statistics for the Earth and Moon:
![]() Earth's Moon | vs. | ![]() Earth |
SIZE COMPARISON | |
![]() Earth's Moon is 3.7x smaller than Earth | |
AVERAGE ORBIT DISTANCE Average of minimum and maximum distances from an object to the body it orbits. | |
384,400 km | 149,598,262 km |
MEAN ORBIT VELOCITY The average speed of an object over an entire orbit. | |
3,680.5 km/h | 107,218 km/h |
ORBIT ECCENTRICITY The amount an object's orbit deviates from a perfect circle. | |
0.0554 | 0.01671123 |
EQUATORIAL INCLINATION The tilt of an object's equator in relation to the plane of the ecliptic. | |
6.68 degrees | 23.4393 degrees |
EQUATORIAL RADIUS The distance from the center of an object to its equator. | |
1,737.5 km | 6,371.00 km |
EQUATORIAL CIRCUMFERENCE The distance around an object at the equator. | |
10,917.0 km | 40,030.2 km |
VOLUME The amount of space an object occupies. | |
21,971,669,064 km3 | 1,083,206,916,846 km3 |
DENSITY Mass per volume. | |
3.344 g/cm3 | 5.513 g/cm3 |
MASS A fundamental physics term describing how much matter an object is made up of. | |
73,476,730,924,573,500,000,000 kg | 5,972,190,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg |
SURFACE AREA The outer or uppermost part of a planet, moon, asteroid, comet or other body. | |
37,936,694.79 km2 | 510,064,472 km2 |
SURFACE GRAVITY The gravitational acceleration experienced at the world's surface, at the equator. | |
1.624 m/s2 | 9.80665 m/s2 |
ESCAPE VELOCITY The speed needed for an object to break away from the gravitational pull of a planet or moon. | |
8,552 km/h | 40,284 km/h |