Nick Theodorakis said:
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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.
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Steffanie said:
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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
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Read again the bit in bold in Nick's quote.
Keep facing the lamp as you shuffle around it. What you're doing is facing the same
wall as you shuffle around the lamp.
There is a difference between the two actions.
Just to clarify, you complete a rotation on your axis once you've faced all four walls in the room. That will happen to take as long as it takes for you to complete one orbit of the lamp.