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Universal Speed in an Elephant Sanctuary

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The Moon Is for the People, Right?

The moon is moving away from us by about an inch and a half every year. This can be done with that same equation taking the distance over the time. So we know that we are about 93 million miles from the sun at any given time. With that number, we can calculate the whole circumference of our orbit.

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