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Can someone check my answer:

Does the Moon travel it's own diameter in about 3.34 seconds?

(Relative to the Earth)

So if it passed directly in front of a star, does it only take 3.34 seconds for that star to reappear on the other side?

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Distance to the Moon is about 390 Megameters, time to orbit is 27.32 days, so speed in m/s is:

D*2*pi/T/86400 ~ 1040 m/s

Diameter is about 3500 m, so time of occlusion is:

3500/1040 ~ 3.36

More accurately, diameter ~ 3475m, hence

3475/1040 ~ 3.34.

Seems low to me.

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I think the moon's diameter is 3475 km, not m