5E Template - Title of the Lesson - UTeach Outreach

A large circular cut-out or a large disk represent Earth’s orbit and a small disk carries the Moon’s orbit around Earth. The biggest problem in construction is the difference in size between the radius of the Moon’s orbit and the radius of Earth’s orbit, which is 391 times larger (a discussion of the actual, elliptical shapes of their orbits is in Extension (2), below). ................
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