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  2. Orbit of the Moon - Wikipedia

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    [20] [21] By that time, Earth and the Moon would be in a mutual spin–orbit resonance or tidal locking, in which the Moon will orbit Earth in about 47 days (currently 27 days), and both the Moon and Earth would rotate around their axes in the same time, always facing each other with the same side. This has already happened to the Moon—the ...

  3. Heliocentrism - Wikipedia

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    The movements of the Moon, the planets, and the Sun around the static Earth in the Ptolemaic geocentric model (upper panel) in comparison to the orbits of the planets and the daily-rotating Earth around the Sun in the Copernican heliocentric model (lower panel). In both models, the Moon rotates around the Earth.

  4. Orrery - Wikipedia

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    A tellurion will show the Earth with the Moon revolving around the Sun. It will use the angle of inclination of the equator from the table above to show how it rotates around its own axis. It will show the Earth's Moon, rotating around the Earth. [23] A lunarium is designed to show the complex motions of the Moon as it revolves around the Earth.

  5. Tidal locking - Wikipedia

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    If the Moon were not rotating at all, it would alternately show its near and far sides to Earth, while moving around Earth in orbit, as shown in the right figure. The Moon is shown in polar view, and is not drawn to scale. A side view of the Pluto–Charon system. Pluto and Charon are tidally locked to each other.

  6. Historical models of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    They also claimed that the Moon and the planets orbit the Earth. [23] This model is usually attributed to Philolaus. This model is the first one that depicts a moving Earth, simultaneously self-rotating and orbiting around an external point (but not around the Sun), thus not being geocentrical, contrary to common intuition.

  7. Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon ...

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    An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago. ... the object’s orbit around the sun is ...

  8. Super moon seen from around the world - AOL

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    2014's rendition of the super moon shined brightly as it made its orbit around the earth in style this weekend. Better than a full moon, it's when the moon gets as closely as possibly to the earth ...

  9. 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.