Because the Earth's gravitational pull pulls it in.
The phase of the moon when it's halfway around its orbit is a first quarter moon. This occurs when the moon has completed one quarter of its orbit around Earth, with the sun illuminating half of the side facing us.
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.
The movement of the Moon around the Earth is called lunar orbit. It is an elliptical path that the Moon follows as it revolves around the Earth.
No. The moon's orbit around the earth is.
The shape of the moon's orbit around the Earth is an ellipse.
The moon is visible on Earth. That's where we get the idea of months from - from the different appearances of the moon at various times during its orbit around us.
The first US spacecraft to enter into an orbit around a planet other than the moon was Mariner 2, which orbited Venus in 1962.
No planets are in orbit around the moon
No, the moon orbits around the Earth, not the sun. This is due to the gravitational pull between the Earth and the moon. The moon's orbit around the Earth is what causes its phases and affects tides on Earth.
The Moon's aphelion is the point in its orbit where it is farthest away from the Earth. This distance is about 252,088 miles (405,696 kilometers) from the Earth. The Moon's orbit is not a perfect circle, so its distance from Earth varies as it revolves around us.
The circling of the spacecraft around the moon is called its lunar orbit.
The moon is in constant orbit around the earth, all the time.