- The time taken by sunlight to reach the earth is 8 minutes 20 seconds.
- The time required for moonlight to reach earth 1.3 seconds.
- The moon’s volume is about 1/50th of Earth.
- The exact time taken by the earth for single rotation on its own axis is 23 hours 56 minutes 4.09 seconds.
- The size of the earth was first measured by Eratosthenes.