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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.
Is the moon smaller than the earth bigger than the earth or same size as the earth?
The moon is smaller than the Earth. Its diameter is just over one quarter that of Earths, but its total mass is only around 1.23% of Earths mass.
Why is the moon phase cycle longer than the Moon's revolution around earth?
The Moon takes 27.3 days to go around the Earth once, but the time from new moon to new moon is 29.5 days. This is because while the Moon is going around the Earth, the Earth keeps moving going around the Sun. By the time the Moon has made exactly one orbit, the Earth has moved another 27.3 days along in its orbit, and it takes the Moon another 2.2 days to get back into the same relative arrangement of Sun-Moon-Earth.
How is moon different than a planet?
The moon orbits the planet Earth rather than the sun, so it is considered a moon.
Why is the moon located between the sun and earth?
The Moon is not necessarily located between the Sun and Earth.About half of the time (half of the orbit of the Moon around Earth), the Earth is closer to the Sun than the Moon is. This is the case whenever the Moon surface is more than 50 % lit (more than half moon).At full moon, the Earth is located almost on a straight line between the Moon and the Sun.At some full moons, there is a lunar eclipse, where the Earth is located so close to a straight line between the Moon and the Sun and that the Earth casts shadow on the Moon.Similarly, half of the time (half of the orbit of the Moon around Earth), the Moon is closer to the Sun than the Earth is. This is the case whenever the Moon surface is less than 50 % lit (less than half moon).At new moon, the Moon is located almost on a straight line between the Sun and Earth.At some new moons, there is a solar eclipse, where the Moon is so close to being on a straight line betwen the Sun and Earth that the Moon covers the Sun when seen from the Earth.But the distance from the Moon to Earth is always much less than the distance from the Moon to the Sun. This is because the Moon orbits Earth in almost a circle with an average radius of 385,000 kilometers, whereas Earth (and with it, the Moon) orbits the Sun in almost a circle with an average radius of 150,000,000 kilometers.The Sun is always around 400 times as far from Earth as the Moon is.
Can the revolving of the moon around the earth be an example of acceleration?
Yes. The moon is continuously 'falling' around the Earth, and the acceleration is due to the gravitic attraction between them. This is a different acceleration than the "go faster and faster" kind.
Does an apple fall faster on the moon or earth?
On the earth because the earth has stronger gravity than the moon
Does the earth move faster then the moon?
The earth moves faster than the moon. Answer 2 Since they both take the same time to get round the Sun (1 year) they must both move at the same average speed. However, the Moon is also moving round the Earth. Unless its plane of rotation is at exactly 90 degrees to the path of the Earth around the Sun (which it isn't), there will be times when it's going around the Sun slightly faster than Earth and times when it's going slightly slower.
Would the moon and the earth fall towards each other faster than a pebble and the earth because of their greater mass?
Yes, if they were stand still and were not revolving around each other! The Centrifugal force of Moon's revolution around Earth keeps them apart
Does the moon spin fifty times faster than the earth?
No, the moon does not spin faster than the Earth, it actually spins much more slowly than the Earth does, just once per lunar month, keeping the same face pointed at the Earth at all times.
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.
Why does the Moon revolve around Earth and not directly around the Sun?
The Moon and Earth are closer in mass than they are to the Sun.
Why do you never see the far side of the moon?
You never see the far side of the moon because the moon rotates around Earth much, much faster than it revolves on it's axis. Hope this helped!
Why do all places on Earth have the same moon phases on the same day?
All places have the same moon phase because the moon takes 27 days to revolve around the Earth and the Earth takes 24 hours to rotate. The speed of rotation is faster than the moon's revolution making the moon appear unmoving and all parts of Earth having the same moon phase.
Does the moon spin on its axis faster than the earth?
No. It's much slower. The Earth takes a day to spin round. The Moon takes a month.
Is a car faster than the moon?
no the moon is faster
Why can the moon not escape from the earth?
The earth is six times more massive than the moon. That keeps the moon in orbit around it, just as the mass of the sun keeps the earth in orbit around it.
