Prabhupada

[Guest guest]

> I thought the moon thing is clear already. Anyway, I can say what I know

> about it. As I learned, the Moon is closer than the sun if you view the

> earth as a globe, as is the system in Surya Siddhanta, for example. But if

> you view earth as a plane, Bhu-mandala, as in Bhagavatam, then sun in

> closer to earth. Depends on how you look at the whole thing.

>

> Is there more to it?

 

 

"the distance between moon and earth is more than the distance between the

sun and the earth."Room Conversation--August 8, 1976, Tehran

 

"The sun is supposed to be 93,000,000 miles above the surface of the earth,

and from the ®r…mad-Bh€gavatam we understand that the moon is 1,600,000

miles above the sun. Therefore the distance between the earth and the moon

would be about 95,000,000 miles. So if a space capsule were traveling at the

speed of 18,000 miles per hour, how could it reach the moon in four days? At

that speed, going to the moon would take at least seven months. That a space

capsule on a moon excursion has reached the moon in four days is therefore

impossible."SB 8.10.38 p