does the moon move over a single night? and in which direction?
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Compared to the stars the moon moves from west to east.\nIn 27.3 days it returns to it 'start star'.\nIn one night it moves (360 / 27.3) degrees.\nIn one night it moves 13,2 degrees from west to east compared to the stars.
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You could ask the same about the sun (although the angle of Earth's rotational axis makes things somewhat more complicated in the polar regions). The moon is simply so far from earth that your position on earth's surface becomes secondary. Half a day the earth's rotation will bring you onto the side where the moon is, half a day it will bring you onto the opposite side.\n\nI know from personal experience that the moon remains visible and fairly high on the horizon even beyond the arctic circle when the sun won't rise above the horizon any more. Apparently earth's rotational axis is (almost?) perpendicular to the plane in which earth and moon circle one another.
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Moon definitely rotates on its axis and the period of its rotation is exactly equal to period of its revolution. So we always see the same face. \nIf earth was to rotate on its axis in 365 days. i.e. its period of rotation would had been equal to its period of revolution.it would always keep the same face to sun and there would be no days and nights. \n ==>>Note that the fact moon keeps same face towards earth is sufficient proof that it is rotating. otherwise if it revolves around earth, we would be seing the back of moon at some  time.
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First of all i would like to say that you are some kind of good thinker.. well for 4 years old, this kind of question may too complex for you. But i try to answer it for our knowledge.\n\nWell the moon is not just go down when the sun is up. The world is rotating itself, while the world is rotating around the sun. In the same time, the moon is rotating around the earth and the sun. When you are at any part of the earth expecially near to the equator, you will see some kind of nice organized pattern of when sun is out, the moon is gone, otherwise vise versa. \n\nWell, actually this is not the true. The moon is still there rotating around the earth in 24 hour time, but when the part of the earth where get alots of sun shine, the brighness of the moon will dissphere like you shine a touch in a good shinine day. The light from the touch will not seen as in the dark. But we cannot say that the ligh is gone. The light is still there but, due to the brigher light of the sun (higher cendela - unit for light), the reflaction light of moon is not seen.\n\nThere are some infomation that i can help you. It's good to think!!!
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what? I don't think the moon appears stationary since it travels across the sky and goes through phases.\nWhat?
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The phases of the moon are the same around the world. What varies is the rise and set time. The US Naval Observatory is a great site for this.
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moon moves in clockwise direction
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The Moon gets layed every evening? Dang Moon gets better action than me.
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Not havieng a moon would not have affected the lengh of the day.  The moon doesn't play an important part in the lengh of the day anyway.
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HUH? It was a full moon last night...
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The moon has a 28-day orbit around the earth so naturally there is a part of that cycle when it will be on the same side of the earth as the sun. Note though that you cannot have a full moon in the sky during the day since a full moon means that the earth, sun and moon all line up. You can have a new moon in the sky during the day since the moon is then between us and the sun and all we see is the dark side.
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Actually the moon does spin. Please try out the following links.
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No tides (not true) \nNo intertidal zone (not true) \nNo eclipses \nDarker skies for astronomy \nSome animals affected (such as salmon and turtles) \nDifferent night creatures \nNo gravity (not true) \nMore impacts on Earth by space debris \nNo lunar calendar \nNo lunar phases \nWorse surfing \nDarker nights \nDifferent name for "lunatics'' \nNo lunar fables (werewolves and so on) \nNo nearby place for astronauts to go \nA lost vehicle for romance \nA lost theme for love songs \nNo Man in the Moon \nThe day would be eight hours long. \nThe winds would be much stronger.\nhttp://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/33/33.html\n\nFYI \nThe Moon is moving away from the earth which is why the question is in theory with scientists..The Moon is receding at 2 inches per year\n\nAs for your unintelligent insult on which you are trying to be supreme, you have no CLUE...\n\nIn 1897 George Darwin, son of Charles, suggested that tides are causing the Moon to spiral AWAY FROM US. His hypothesis was CONFIRMED in 1969 after the Apollo 12 astronauts placed corner reflectors (like the red and orange ones on a car) on the Moon. By firing lasers from Earth to the Moon, off the corner reflectors, and back again, astronomers measured the round-trip time and, hence, the distance to the Moon. Repeating the experiment over several years, they confirmed Darwin's prediction. The Moon is receding at 2 inches per year.\n\nSo instead of trying to sound politically correct find facts to the basis of your answer DORK..\nSo here is an explaination of why our days would be 8 hrs long.Earth loses angular momentum because the high tide closest to the Moon is trying to get back directly underneath the Moon, while the high tide farthest from the Moon is trying to get as far away from the Moon as possible. Consequently, the high tides flow westward, and in so doing, they encounter continents and islands. The water pushes against these land masses, which, because of rotation, are moving eastward. The net result is that the eastward rotation is retarded by the westward motion of the tides -- slowing down the rotation. The day is getting longer by about 0.002 seconds per century. It doesn't sound like much, but over billions of years it adds up. Not that you would understand..\n\nNone of your previous questions have been intelligent..
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With or without stopping to ask for directions?\n\nIf the moon is (on average) 185,000 miles away and you drive 70 miles an hour, you'll get there in about 2600 hours, or somewhere around 110 days.\n\nRemember the moon is also moving, so you'll have to aim for the point in space where the moon will be when you get there ... and you'd better be going faster than 70 mph when you get there because the Moon won't wait up -- it's revolving around the Earth much faster than that.
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There are always two high and two low tides in a 24-hour period, but depending on the particular area you are looking at, you may not get much difference in the two tides when the sun and the moon are on the same side of the Earth.\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ocean/Tides.shtml
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This is an optical illusion caused when the moon is near the horizon.  In angular terms, the moon appears to move with an angular velocity of about 14.5 degrees per hour (15 degrees per hour due to the earth's rotation, minus approx. 1/28 of that to account for the moon's revolution around the earth in what appears to be the opposite direction).\n\nWhen the moon is near the horizon, we perceive it as moving more rapidly because our eyes have the reference point of the earth's surface to compare.\n\nWhen it is high in the sky, there is no convenient reference point on earth nearby. The other stars, etc. also appear to move at about 15 degrees per hour due to the earth's rotation - so the apparent motion of the moon compared to them is much less than the apparent motion with respect to the earth.
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Explain how a 600 yard wide rock could cause the 2,160 mile wide Moon to wobble, without touching it? It'd be like throwing a golf ball at a bus and expecting it to tip it over....\n\nIt doesn't matter what the moon does as far as wobbling and spinning, it's gravity isnt affected (unless it breaks up) and therefore the end result means zip to us. We may just get to see the far side!