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Old 18-August-2006, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1 View Post
It actually circles the earth in a little over 27 days--so that it goes through the cycle of constellations in those 27 days.
Yes this is confusing me. On one hand we have:
Revolution period(Sidereal period)=27.32166155 days (27 d 7 h 43.2 min)
and on the other:
Synodic period = 29.530 588 days (29 d 12 h 44.0 min)

Any explaination would be gratefully received
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