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  2. Orbit of the Moon - Wikipedia

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    Apsidal precession—The major axis of Moon's elliptical orbit rotates by one complete revolution once every 8.85 years in the same direction as the Moon's rotation itself. This image looks upwards depicting Earth's geographic south pole and the elliptical shape of the Moon's orbit (vastly exaggerated from its almost circular shape to make the ...

  3. Lunar precession - Wikipedia

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    Apsidal precession occurs when the direction of the major axis of the Moon's elliptic orbit rotates once every 8.85 years in the same direction as the Moon's rotation itself. This image looks upwards depicting Earth's geographic south pole and the elliptical shape of the Moon's orbit (which is vastly exaggerated from its almost circular shape ...

  4. Tidal locking - Wikipedia

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    Here, the ratio of the rotation period of a body to its own orbital period is some simple fraction different from 1:1. A well known case is the rotation of Mercury, which is locked to its own orbit around the Sun in a 3:2 resonance. [2] This results in the rotation speed roughly matching the orbital speed around perihelion. [14]

  5. Moon - Wikipedia

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    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It orbits at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi), about 30 times the diameter of Earth. Tidal forces between Earth and the Moon have synchronized the Moon's orbital period (lunar month) with its rotation period at 29.5 Earth days, causing the same side of the Moon to always face Earth.

  6. We’re going back to the moon: Everything to know ... - AOL

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    Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander stands more than 6 feet tall and nearly 12 feet wide. Powered by three solar panels, the spacecraft is designed to stick the landing when it makes it to the moon ...

  7. Orbital period - Wikipedia

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    The orbital period (also revolution period) is the amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object. In astronomy , it usually applies to planets or asteroids orbiting the Sun , moons orbiting planets, exoplanets orbiting other stars , or binary stars .

  8. Did we really land on the moon? The big questions and eye ...

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    Moon landing deniers say there's clear photographic evidence of this, and point out that because there's no breeze on the moon, this must be fake. Apollo 11astronaut Edwin Buzz Aldrin, on the Moon ...

  9. Vaccine, packaged food stocks fall as Kennedy moves closer to ...

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    The vote by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee paves the way for the full Senate to vote to confirm him as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as soon as this week.