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How many times does the moon orbit the sun while the earth completes one orbit of the sun?
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∙ 15y ago
One.
The reason is that the moon orbits the earth, very close by. The earth describes a huge circle around the sun, while at the same time the moon describes about 13 tiny circles around the earth. All in all, it makes the same number of solar orbits as does the earth.
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