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It is held in its orbit by the mutual gravitational attraction between the earth and the moon.

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What is it called when the moon moves around the earth?

This is called its orbit. Strictly, the moon and the earth both orbit their common centre of mass. The path of the moon around Earth is elliptical orbit. It takes about 29 days to complete one orbit of earth by moon.


What holds the moon in orbit?

The gravitational force between the moon and Earth keeps the moon in orbit. This force pulls the moon towards Earth, but the moon's velocity allows it to continue moving in a circular path around the Earth.


What is it called the path the moon follows around the earth?

The path that the moon follows around the Earth is called an orbit. The planets going around the sun is called revolution. The moon goes around the Earth in a month.


What is the path in which the moon moves around the earth?

The ORBIT of the Moon.


What does the Earth's path around the moon look like?

The Moon's orbit around the Earth is an ellipse. The Earth doesn't go around the Moon at all.


What is the path earth takes around the sun or the path the moon takes around earth?

That would be an elliptical orbit.


What is the path of the moon moving around the earth called?

The orbit of the moon.


The path the moon follow around the earth is it?

Orbit


What is the name of the path that the moon takes around the earth?

An orbit.


What is the circular path the moon takes around the earth?

the orbiteal


What is the path of the earth what the moon follows around called?

Orbit


Is the moon a fourth planet?

No, by definition a body must revolve around the sun in its own path to be planet. The moon has a path around earth and the sun.