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How do you call it when a moon 1.rotates around itself 2.rotates around its planet and 3.rotates around the Sun at the same time it rotates around the planet?
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A moon spinning on its axis is called Rotation.
A moon going around its planet is called Orbiting.
By Definition, all moons must be orbiting a planet. If the same body were on its own (say, if the Moon were orbiting the Sun without the Earth), it would be defined as a Planet. Thus, Question 3 is the same as Question 2.
A planet's trip around the Sun is also called an Orbit.
Because our Moon's orbit is so slow compared with our trip around the Sun (only 12 orbits per year), the Moon's path around the Sun would resemble a rounded, 12 sided dodecagon, and over several years would trace a path not unlike a Spirograph design.
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What does the earth rotates around?
The Earth rotates around it's axis.The Earth revolves around the Sun.
What lever rotates around a fixed point?
A lever is a stiff structure that rotates around a fixed point. The fixed point around which a lever rotates is fulcrum.
Is it true that the earth rotates?
yes the earth rotates around the sun
How do Earth rotates?
The Earth rotates in not a perfect circle around the sun but in a oval shape.
How do the earth rotates?
The Earth rotates in not a perfect circle around the sun but in a oval shape.
Does sun rotates arpund the sun?
If you mean whether the Sun rotates around an axis: yes, it does.
Why do you see the same face of the moon all the time?
Because it rotates around its own axis at the same rate as it rotates around the Earth.
What does the moon do around Earth?
does it revolves rotates phases or circles the anser is rotates
Does your universe rotates around itself?
Yes.
Does the earth revolve around or rotate?
rotates.
How does a wagon work?
It rotates around its axis.
What is a planets axis?
A planet's axis is the imaginary line that the planet rotates around, like spinning top.
