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Calculate the surface temperature of moon. Given that `lamda_(m)=14` micrometer where `lamda_(m)` is the wavelenght of the maximmum intensity of emission. Wien's constant = 0.2892cm.K.

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2206.57 K
`T =b//lamda_(m)=0.289xx10^(-2)//14xx10^(-6)=206.57` K
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