Chapter 3: Q43P (page 126)
The mass of the earth is
, the mass of the moon is
, and the center-to-center distance is
. How far from the center of the earth is the center of the mass of the Earth-Moon system? Note that the Earth’s radius is 
Short Answer
The distance of the center of the earth and the center of the mass of the Earth-moon system is




is the distance of the earth’s center to the Earth-Moon system,
are the mass of the moon and the earth respectively,
are the center to center distance of the earth and the moon and center to center distance of the earth that is 0.

