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What are some of the reasons the moon goes down at night when it's not even late?
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∙ 11y ago
Some of the reasons?? The grammar is awful...
Use Google. This website is weak.
Well, the earth rotates on its axis which is not perpendicular to the plane on which the planet orbits the sun; this is what causes seasons. e.g.) If the Northern Hemisphere is pointing toward the sun and the Southern Hemisphere pointed away then it is summer in the N.H. and winter in the S.H. The earth will continuously point in the same direction regardless of what side of the sun it is on.
Then we have the moon which orbits the earth, which orbits the sun. The position of the moon in relation to the sun and the earth is what cause the phases of the moon; it takes the moon 29.5 days to rotate around the earth. (The moon does not rotate and even if it did we would still experience the phases of the moon).
So,
It takes the earth 23 hours and 56 minutes to rotate 360 degrees on its axis.
It takes the moon 29.5 days to rotate around the earth.
As the moon is "going down" every night or "coming up" every morning it is merely our perspective from our ever rotating earth. The moon will appear to go around the earth every 24 hours because the earth rotates every 24 hours and all of our surroundings will appear to move around us. As this is happening (the rotation of our earth) the moon is actually rotating around the earth, you could see how our perspective of the location of the moon in our sky will change vastly everyday for the moon completes a cycle in only 29.5 days.
Hope this helps...
Seriously though google it next time. :]
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