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Is 68,500 milimeters as long as The Distance from Earth to the Moon?

It's about 0.0000002 times as long as The Distance from Earth to the Moon
The length of The Distance from Earth to the Moon is about 384,436,500,000 milimeters.
(a.k.a. Luna) (median of semi-major axis, or apigee, and semi-minor axes, or perigee)
The orbit of the Moon around the Earth is elliptical, with an average distance of 384,436,500,000 milimeters from center-to-center. About 428.376 kg of moon rock have been cataloged on the Earth, from the American Apollo and Soviet Luna Programs, and from samples that have been extracted from meteorites.
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