 The average distance of the moon during this time is some 224,000 miles from the Earth. But the closest one of the year is that super full moon on October the 17th, when that full super hunter's moon comes within some 221,000 miles of the Earth. But we continue with space. Here's an interesting story. The Russian satellite Research P1 mysteriously exploded in space on June the 26th. What's up with that?