How many United States can fit on the moon? 🤔 engineering
How did we measure the size of the moon?Working off the calculation of the Earth's diameter calculated by the Greek mathematician , Aristarchus measured the ratio of the angular sizes of the shadow cast by the Earth on the moon during a lunar eclipse and recognized that the moon almost perfectly blocks out the sun during a solar eclipse .
But if you measured the US from north to south, you would get a different result. The US is about 1,582 miles north to south, so the moon's diameter is wider than the US is 'tall'.If you strictly overlayed a map of the United States on an image of the moon, you would be able to fit all of the states from the Rocky Mountains in the west to the Appalachian Mountains to the east.
But considering that Russia is the largest country on Earth by width and surface area, the Russian Federation would come the closest to matching the size of the moon.