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Originally Posted by Nick Theodorakis
It rotates with the exact same period as its orbit.
Try this: Put a lamp on the floor in the middle of the room, and stand facing it. Now shuffle along in a circle around the lamp, but keep facing it as you are going around it. That is what the moon is doing. You will have rotated once at the same time you went around the lamp once.
Nick
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Am i confusing rotation with orbiting? If i (the moon) will have rotated once by the same time i went around the lamp (which is earth), how is there
not a time when my back is facing the lamp?!
Myself and my bf are killing each other trying to simulate the moons rotation in our living room
