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A LASER is a source of very intense, monochromatic, and unidirectional beam of light.These properties of a laser light can be exploited to measure long distance. The distance of the Moon from the Earth has been already determined very precisely using a laser as a source of light . A laser light beamed at the Moon takes 2.56 s to return after reflection at the Moon's surface. How much is the radius of the lunar orbit around the Earth ?

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`3.84xx10^(8) m`
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