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It depends. It can take up to 31 days to 28 days. These are commonly known as months. As simple as that.
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What is a real world example of a rotation?
The earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours. How much more "real world" do you want?
How does the Moon's rotation physically affect the Earth?
The moon's rotation has no affect on the earth because the moon always faces its "near" side toward the earth. In the far distant past, the effect of the earth's presence slowed the moon's rotation until the present state was reached. The moon likewise slows the earth's rotation, but only by a tiny bit each century because the moon is so much smaller than the earth.
Is the moon rotating faster than earth?
No. The moon rotates much slower than Earth. Earth completes a rotation once every days. The moon completes a rotation once every 27 days.
How does the spinning of the earth effect earth's water?
It actually doesnt much. The main contributing factor to the movement of the water and tides is the moon. Every day= 1 revolution around earth for the moon, so the tides go with the moon. So actaully, the rotation of the earth really doesnt effect it much.
Why does a person n earth always sees the same side of the moon?
The Moon rotates in such a way that it always shows us the same side - it takes 27 days to go once around the Earth, and 27 days to rotate around its own axis. The reason for this is that the Moon's rotation, which was probably much faster initially, slowed down, through tidal forces from the Earth - just as the Earth's rotation is currently slowing down, due to tidal forces from the Moon. Many moons in the Solar System have this bound rotation - they rotate once every time they go around their planet.
How does the moon revolve around the Earth?
The Moon is in synchronous rotation with the Earth, which means it rotates on its axis in exactly the same time it takes to orbit the Earth, so one side permanently faces the Earth and the other side permanently faces away. The Moon orbits the Earth as a result of the mutual gravitational force of attraction between them.Strictly speaking, the Moon isn't revolving around the Earth per se; rather, both the Moon and the Earth are revolving around a mutual point, known as the barycenter. Because the Earth so much more massive than the Moon, the barycenter of the Earth-Moon system is actually within Earth's crust.
What is one result of the Moon's revolution around earth?
The main effect is probably on the Moon's phases. If the Moon did not revolve around the Earth yet "magically" did not fall into the Earth, we would still see phases of the Moon, because Moon and Earth orbit the Sun. However the changes in the Moon's appearance would be much slower. In practical terms, it's the rotating around the Earth that gives us the Moon's regular phase changes. Another effect is that we always see the same side of the Moon. That's because the time the Moon takes to orbit the Earth is exactly the same as the Moon's rotation period. Also, there's a small effect on the times of the Earth's tides.
What is the role of the sun in the moon phases?
The Moon is a reflection of the sun, so the earth and moons rotation determine how much light is reflected off the moon, so parts of the moon are visible.
How much moons are there around earth?
The earth only has one moon
How much time does it take for the moon to make one rotation?
The rotation period of the moon is 27.32 days.
How are eclipses and phases different?
If we are talking about the moon, a moon phase exists because a part of the moon is not directed towards the sun and is therefore dark. Realize that at all times half the moon is directed towards the sun, but how much of that part is visible to us depends on lunar rotation around Earth. An eclipse on the other hand exists because light from the sun to the moon is blocked by the Earth; what you are seeing is the Earth's shadow on the moon.
Why is an eclipse formed?
Because the rotation of the moon around the Earth, it depends on the location pattern of the sun and moon.angle2222222:HOW IS A LUNAR ECLIPSE FORMED?A lunar eclipse is formed when the Earth (our homeland)comes in between the Sun and the Moon.The Earth blocks the light from the Sun which was supposedly had to reach the moon.Then a region (on earth)will observe the moon that has not much of light.
