But because the moon orbits the Earth in an ellipse, it is sometimes closer, and sometimes farther away. When it is at it's farthest point away from Earth - called the "apogee" - it appears ...

The furthest point in this ellipse is known as the apogee, and is around 253,000 miles (405,500 kilometers) from earth on average. Its closest point is the perigee, which is an average distance of ...

Although the orbit may appear circular at this scale, it is, in fact, an ellipse, as the distances ... as the Moon approaches apogee (its farthest distance from Earth), and then larger and larger ...

An ellipse resembles an oval with the Earth positioned ... called perigee, to 253,000 miles at apogee its most distant. That's a difference of more than 30,000 miles or about four times Earth's ...