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Is 241 nautical miles as long as The Distance from Earth to the Moon?

It's about one-eight-hundred-fiftieth as long as The Distance from Earth to the Moon
The length of The Distance from Earth to the Moon is about 207,579.10 nautical miles.
(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 207,579.10 nautical miles 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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