Question

The table shows information about two of the major moons of Uranus.

Moon Orbital Period (days) Average Distance from Uranus (km)
Miranda 0.319 129,390
Titania 8.71 435,910
What is the average distance between Miranda and Uranus?

Answer 1

Average distance Between moons of Uranus

Answer

Moon Orbital Period (days) Average Distance from Uranus (km)

Values of two major moons of Uranus

Miranda 0.319 129,390

Titania 8.71 435,910

Average distance between Miranda and Uranus = 1.29 × $10^{5}$ km

Explanation:

As an Example we can analyse in the case of observing distances of planets in olden days .

• Astronomers could determine the distance from Earth to any other planet or the Sun, they could use that to find the distances to all the planets, and their understanding of the arrangement of the solar system would be greatly improved.
• The Method used to finding the distance for understand parallax by holding your thumb up at arm's length and looking at it first with one eye, and then your other. Notice how your thumb seems to shift back and forth against the objects that are farther away. Because your two eyes are separated by a few inches, each views your thumb from a different position. The amount that your thumb appears to move is its parallax. When astronomers measure the parallax of an object and know the separation between the two positions from which it is observed, they can calculate the distance to the object.
• Using observations on Earth separated by thousands of miles -- like looking through two eyes that are very far apart -- parallax measurements can reveal the great distances to planets.