In which direction does the moon go around the earth?

Answer 1

Earth revolves around the sun and also rotates on it's axis.

Answer 2

The stars do not move. The earth does. So depending on where you are standing you will think that the stars move. They arent, YOU are. The earth rotates and that is why you think the stars move.

Answer 3

Flag?

If it's on the moon;

It points nowhere but down. There's no atmosphere (hence no wind) on the moon that could make any flag float. You saw the flag of Neil Armstrong float? Well if this flag was really on the moon, it was probably made from a tough material like plastic but not cloth.

If it's on Earth;

Depends on the wind bro! :)

Answer 4

Since a full revolution around the Earth takes about 27 days, the answer would be something like 360 degrees / 27 in a 24-hour period, or 360 / 27 / 2 in one night.

Since a full revolution around the Earth takes about 27 days, the answer would be something like 360 degrees / 27 in a 24-hour period, or 360 / 27 / 2 in one night.

Since a full revolution around the Earth takes about 27 days, the answer would be something like 360 degrees / 27 in a 24-hour period, or 360 / 27 / 2 in one night.

Since a full revolution around the Earth takes about 27 days, the answer would be something like 360 degrees / 27 in a 24-hour period, or 360 / 27 / 2 in one night.

Answer 5

Ignoring the rising and setting of the moon and viewed against the background of the 'fixed' stars,
the moon appears to move westward an average of about 13.2 degrees per day, corresponding to
one complete revolution of the sky in 27.32 days.

Answer 6

On the average over the course of one revolution, it has to be

(360 degrees) divided by (the moon's period of orbital revolution).

That's (360 / 27.32) = about 13.2 degrees.

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Here's a neat figure that goes along with this fact:

The moon's apparent size in our sky is about 1/2 degree of arc. If it moves about 13.2 degrees per day with respect to the background stars, how long does it take to swim through the stars by its own diameter ?

13.2 degrees = (2 x 13.2) = 26.4 apparent moon diameters.

26.4 apparent diameters in 24 hours = 1.1 diameter per hour, or

The moon moves its own diameter through the background stars in a little less than 55 minutes !

Answer 7

The moon's motion that we see is the result of two different motions ... the earth's rotation, and the moon's orbital revolution around the earth.

If the moon were motionless, just hanging up there in one fixed place, then as the earth rotates every 24 hours, the moon would do just about the same thing we see the sun do every day ...stay up for 12 hours when we're facing it, and down for 12 hours when we're facing away from it. It would rise in the east, move across the sky, and set in the west, exactly like everything else we see in the sky, as the earth spins us around.

That's almost what we see the moon do, but not exactly.

The moon also travels nearly a circle in its orbit around the earth, in the same direction that we're rotating with the earth (west to east). So, it rises in the east and moves across the sky just like everything else. But, by the time we've turned half-way around 12 hours later, the moon has been following us, and has moved about 6.6 degrees around its orbit, which is enough to keep it in our sky for almost an extra 1/2 hour after we would expect to see it set.

Answer 8

The real motion of stars is hardly noticeable even over a period of many years. It's the Earth's daily rotation the is the main cause of their apparent motion.

(Stars are so far away that the Earth's revolution around the Sun hardly cases any apparent motion.)

Answer 9

The Earth is Spinning, and wobbling on its magnetic axis every day, so does the solar system randomly change as we spin around the sun so we get different views all the time, also, if your interested; the whole galaxy does the same thing on a much slower (to us) scale.

Answer 10

The stars DO actually move, but they are so far away that it would take several lifetimes for anyone to notice the change.

What we see as the Sun, Moon, planets and stars appearing to rise in the east and set in the west is entirely caused by the fact that the Earth itself is spinning like a carousel, and we're riding one of the horses. So when you see the Sun rising, what's really happening is that your spot on the Earth is spinning around toward the Sun. When you see the Sun set, it's your spot on the Earth turning AWAY from the Sun.

In his book "Sled Driver", SR-71 pilot Brian Shul describes watching the Sun rise in the west, as his jet raced toward the west even faster than the Earth was spinning to the east. The SR-71 "Blackbird" was, at that time, the only aircraft fast enough to do this.