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Actually it doesn't.

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The moon doesn't actually travel in a straight line; it orbits around the Earth in an elliptical path due to the gravitational pull between the two. This orbit appears as a curved trajectory from our perspective on Earth.

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If yo you were to travel from earth round the moon and back to the earth how far have you traveled?

In a straight line, half a million miles. But you can't do it in a straight line.


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