Well, the time has come and gone.. and I did not even receive one response to my trivia... so I guess no winners... I guess I declare my self the winner since I know the answer and the S9 is already hashing on my username. :-)
Maybe my question was too hard to find an answer?
I dont qualify but I'll answer anyway because im an astronomy nerd, it's 7926 miles in diameter, it also has a greatest distance around the world because it's pretty much bulging out at the equator because of the earths rotation, like if you were to spin a water balloon while holding onto the tie it will grow in size around what could be it's equator (the balloon that is).
It's actually getting less over the years because the earth is slowing very slowly, I heard that millions of years ago days were actually what we would consider 20 hours instead of the 24 we have now.
I picked me up a Celestron NexStar 102 SLT a few months ago and where im at we have pretty low light pollution so I can get some decent photos with the Canon.