Abstract
The Moon is the only heavenly body whose distance from the Earth can be directly determined by a simple geometric technique applied across a baseline of a few hundred kilometers or less.
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Schlosser, W., Schmidt-Kaler, T., Milone, E.F. (1991). The Distance of the Moon. In: Challenges of Astronomy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4434-9_5
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