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Why do full moons occur?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

it is becuase the sun shines on the moon and when we look up we see the full moon because the moon is abouf the earth and the sunlight shines on the earth and the moon and we see it full and the other side is dark the moon revolve around earth so that is why we have diffrent frases

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