Does the earth circle around the moon?

Answer 1

No, the moon is not perfectly round or spherical, as a Basketball might be. It is distorted in shape by the powerful gravitational pull of planet Earth. Just as the moon's own gravity pulls at us, distorting large bodies of water (creating what we call tides), so the Earth's pull on the moon causes solid-body tide effects on the moon. This means that the rock and soil of the moon is rearranged by the gravitational pull of Earth.

The shape of the moon, being changed by the Earth, leads to an interesting observation that anyone can make: the moon always shows us the same side or face as it travels around our planet. In all its phases, whenever we look at the moon, we always see the same side.

The moon does not revolve or spin on its axis fast (or slow) enough to give us a view of what we have sometimes called the "dark side" of the moon. The areas of the lunar surface that jut outward toward earth help to lock the moon in its rotation, so that we always see the same side.

While the far side of the moon is not always truly in the dark, any more than the side facing us is always illuminated by the sun; it does remain a mystery to those who observe the moon from Earth. We must rely on spacecraft of some kind that travel to the far side when it is enjoying sunlight to send us images of that part of the moon's surface.

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Answer 2

No, The Moon Rotates In Place And The Earth and The Rest Of The Planets Rotate And Spin Around The Moon And Sun.

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Sorry but you are not quite right, Elysia. The Moon does itself rotate, but at the same rate at which it orbits the Earth so we always see the same face of it, and it orbits the Earth directly.

The combination of Earth and Moon orbits the Sun, so the Moon does indeed go round the Sun although as a partner with the Earth.

Similarly with the other planets that have a moon or moons.

Answer 3

No, the Earth does not circle around the Moon. The Moon orbits around the Earth, while the Earth orbits around the Sun.

Answer 4

Yes. It takes the Moon about 27.3 days to orbit the Earth once. The Moon is now shown to be moving away from Earth at about 1.25 inches per year.

Answer 5

No. The Moon's orbit is an ellipse.

ALL orbits are ellipses, including Earth's orbit. Earth is close to having a circular orbit, but not exactly.

Answer 6

The earth circles round the sun ( a kind of egg shape)

The moon circles round the earth

So no the earth does not circle round the moon

So

Answer 7

Yes. It takes 24 hours for the moon to circle around the earth once.

Answer 8

It cant be because that the moon has so many craters in it

Answer 9

The moon is not perfectly round. It just looks like that from the sun shining on it. The reason it is close to a ball shape is because of the gravitational pull of the earth.

Answer 10

it has a pattern around the world that resets every year and this pattern keeps the moon in the same general area but the exact answer i dont know