How can Earth's moon move so fast through the cosmos without having any wind or weather?
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As others mentioned, the moon has no atmosphere of its own for weather patterns to develop. \n\nThe only wind the moon (or Earth) experiences is the Solar wind.  The solar wind consists of highly energy ions in the form of a plasma.  While the solar wind can effect radio signals and such, it isn't going to do anything to Neil Armstrong's footprints.\n\nThe only thing that truly disturbs the moon surface is impacts by meteorites.  This is evident by the many craters we can see.
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The moon rotates on its own axis and orbitrs the planet Earth as Earth orbits the sun.\n\n\nFrom Wikipedia and verified though other sources:\nThe Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal name other than "The Moon", although in English it is occasionally called Luna (Latin for moon), or Selene, to distinguish it from the generic "moon" (natural satellites of other planets are also called moons). Its symbol is a crescent. The terms lunar, selene/seleno-, and cynthion (from the Lunar deities Selene and Cynthia) refer to the Moon (aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles).\nThe Moon makes a complete orbit about the Earth approximately once every 28 days. Each hour the Moon moves relative to the stars by an amount roughly equal to its angular diameter, or by about 0.5°. The Moon differs from most satellites of other planets in that its orbit is close to the plane of the ecliptic and not in the Earth's equatorial plane.\n\nSeveral ways to consider a complete orbit are detailed in the table below, but the two most familiar are: the sidereal month being the time it takes to make a complete orbit with respect to the stars, about 27.3 days; and the synodic month being the time it takes to reach the same phase, about 29.5 days. These differ because in the meantime the Earth and Moon have both orbited some distance around the Sun.\n\nThe gravitational attraction that the Moon exerts on Earth is the cause of tides in the sea. The tidal flow period, but not the phase, is synchronized to the Moon's orbit around Earth. The tidal bulges on Earth, caused by the Moon's gravity, are carried ahead of the apparent position of the Moon by the Earth's rotation, in part because of the friction of the water as it slides over the ocean bottom and into or out of bays and estuaries. As a result, some of the Earth's rotational momentum is gradually being transferred to the Moon's orbital momentum, resulting in the Moon slowly receding from Earth at the rate of approximately 38 mm per year. At the same time the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing, the Earth's day thus lengthens by about 15 µs every year. A more detailed discussion follows in the section titled Earth & Moon.\n\nThe Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps the same face turned to the Earth at all times. This synchronous rotation is only true on average because the Moon's orbit has definite eccentricity. When the Moon is at its perigee, its rotation is slower than its orbital motion, and this allows us to see up to an extra eight degrees of longitude of its East (right) side. Conversely, when the Moon reaches its apogee, its rotation is faster than its orbital motion and reveals another eight degrees of longitude of its West (left) side. This is called longitudinal libration.\n\nBecause the lunar orbit is also inclined to the Earth's equator, the Moon seems to oscillate up and down (as a person's head does when nodding) as it moves in celestial latitude (declination). This is called latitudinal libration and reveals the Moon's polar zones over about seven degrees of latitude. Finally, because the Moon is only at about 60 Earth radii distance, an observer at the equator who observes the Moon throughout the night moves by an Earth diameter sideways. This is diurnal libration and reveals about one degree's worth of lunar longitude.\n\nEarth and Moon orbit about their barycenter, or common center of mass, which lies about 4700 km from Earth's center (about 3/4 of the way to the surface). Since the barycenter is located below the Earth's surface, Earth's motion is more commonly described as a "wobble". When viewed from Earth's North pole, Earth and Moon rotate counter-clockwise about their axes; the Moon orbits Ea
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the earth doesnt fly towards the sun cuz there r more than one force acting upon it...theres the gravitational pull the sun has on the earth as well as the fact that the moon wants to remain in motion in the same direction.this applies to newtons 1rd law of motion(his first law is that an object will remain at rest until acted upon by another object or it will remain in motion until acted upon by an object..in other words,its inertia)...since the earth has both a side movement and the gravitational pull from the sun...those 2 forces cause the earth to orbit around the sun and not fly towards it or away from it. if u dont understand this...email me (pulga0888@yahoo.com) and ill try to explain it better..........now for ur second question...wat makes the earth spin...the earth spins because of the rotation of the magna and stuff in the earths core..well in the convection zone...im pretty sure thats the answer to the second question but im not positive...if u want me to check then email me.
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We wouldn't know how fast the moon is moving away from Earth.
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From what i understand the earth will eventually leave the earth system altogether in a few hundred thousand years, this process is not however do to tidal drag. That force is responsible for slowing the rotation of the earth (and other planets) What most people don't understand is that the moon acts as a stabilizer for the earth. they degree of axial tilt would vary wildly. the equator may wind up as the north pole and go back again. planets without moons all experience this extreme wobble effect.
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Heat transfer in the Earth's atmosphere is dominated by radiation effects, rather than thermal conduction or convection.\n\nIt's complicated, but on average the Earth's surface is a few tens of degrees warmer than the surface of the Moon, which receives the same amount of sunlight, and of course has no atmosphere.
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The moon is in orbit around the earth. duh! but to answer your question you have to think that as the moon orbits it is orbiting the center of the planet. The earth turns also but it is quite unaffected by the moon, the two have nothing to do with each other. As you might know the earth is tilted some 23 degress from it's orbit around the sun. This tilting gives us our seasons. During winter the earth is tilted away from the sun and because of this sun sits low in the sky ( northern lattitudes of course). In the summer it is the opposite. Anyway the moon also has a tilt to it compared to earth's tilt. As it goes around and round we see it in different parts of it's seasons. Of course the moon takes only 28 days to go through it's year so not much is happening, but it explains why the moon seems to move. One more thing the moon rises in the east. Perhaps you meant the moon seems to rise more north or south- it does both
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It takes the Moon 27.322 days to go around the Earth once. Because of this motion, the Moon appears to move about 13° against the stars each day, or about one-half degree per hour. If you watch the Moon over the course of several hours one night, you will notice that its position among the stars will change by a few degrees.
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It would go a LONG ways before it hit the lunar surface, since there's no aerodynamic friction loss since there's no atmosphere.\n\nBullets are self contained and will project a bullet without an atmosphere.\n\nThe Moon's escape velocity is considerable lower than that of Earth, at 2.38 km/s vs. 11.19 km/s, but most guns available to the public have muzzle velocities of not more than 0.350 km/s\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_velocity
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Draw a big circle to represent the sun.\n\nDraw a medium circle to represent the earth.\n\nNow, between the two circles, draw a tiny circle to represent the moon.\n\nThe moon casts a shadow on the earth.  Imagine that you are in the shadow.  What you are seeing is an eclipse.  You only see the moon.\n\nWait a couple minutes and the moon will move away from the sun.  Now you can see both the sun and the moon.\n\nThe moon can continue moving away from the sun for a long time and you will still be able to see it.\n\nUsually, you can see the sun and moon at the same time because, most of the time, they are not on opposite sides of the earth.  An exception is when there is a full moon, or nearly full moon.  In that case, the sun and moon are on opposite sides of the earth and you can only see one at a time.
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For weather you need hot and cold, wind and rain, snow and ice, and sunshine. The earth has plenty of those, and our weather is a world-wide heat-engine driven by the sun, the rotation of the earth, and the tilt of the earth's rotation axis with respect to its orbital plane as it orbits the sun. Thus we get night and day (hot and cold), seasons (rain, snow and ice), and cloudy or sunny days (and cloudy nights too, but it's hard to see clouds at night; and the Moon provides us with somewhat "sunny" nights a few nights every month).\n\nThe moon has plenty of hot and cold and sunshine, so some "weathering" of its surface does occur over billions of years of time, due to heat expansion and cold contraction of "stuff" on its surface. But without wind (no atmosphere) and rain, snow, and ice (no water) there is nothing to cause real weather like we have here on earth.
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Actually, it is the rotation of the earth that causes weather and then clouds.\nThe clouds move across the sky as a result of differences in heat between regions. All of the matter around the earth is held to it by gravity. However, clouds "float" in air. So they will move at slightly different speeds. \n\nEver watch when they stir a milkshake? the different colors all swirl similarly.
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If you mean, Why does the moon travel from East to West ?" The answer is because The Earth rotates in the opposite direction.  In fact, the moon actually travels from West to East, and this can be seen simply by observing it on consecutive nights, and compare its position in the sky with other celestial objects.
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Think rally hard. The moon has gravity just like the earth. Have you ever seen a flag on earth stand that straight? They had a metal pole across the top and the grainy video make it look as if it is fluttering.
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From Wiki\nThe tides on Earth are mostly generated by the Moon's gravitation, with a less significant contribution by the Sun. These gravitational effects are specifically manifested as tidal forces. The combination of the two is responsible for spring and neap tides. Two tidal bulges, one in the direction of the Moon, and one in the opposite direction (figure 1) form as a result of the tidal forces. The buildup of these bulges and their movement around the earth causes an energy loss due to friction. The energy loss decreases the rotational energy of the Earth.\n\nSince the Earth spins faster than the Moon moves around it, the tidal bulges are dragged along with the Earth's surface faster than the Moon moves, and move "in front of the Moon" (figure 2). Because of this, the Earth's gravitational pull on the Moon has a component in the Moon's "forward" direction with respect to its orbit. This component of the gravitational forces between the two bodies acts like a torque on the Earth's rotation, and transfers angular momentum and rotational energy from the Earth's spin to the Moon's orbital movement.
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Tides occur because the gravitational force between two bodies decreases with distance. Gravitation is the universal force of attraction between all matter. It holds astronomical bodies together and attracts different bodies toward each other. Because gravity tugs on nearby things more strongly than on distant things, the oceans closest to the Moon, feel the greatest attraction to the Moon. Being fluid, these nearby oceans move upward in response to the Moon's pull, until there is a balance between the upward force from the Moon and the downward force from Earth. The high tide on the far side of the Earth occurs because these most distant oceans feel the least attraction to the Moon. In essence, they are left behind as the Moon pulls the other parts of Earth toward itself with greater force.\n\nThe Moon is steadily moving up. As anyone who climbs long flights of stairs knows, it takes energy to move up. If the Moon is moving up, where does the energy come from? There is only one place it could come from: the spin of Earth. This is a zero-sum game that physicists call the conservation of angular momentum: The total angular momentum in the Earth-Moon system, which related to the energy stored in both rotation and revolution, must remain the same. Since the Moon is gaining angular momentum as it spirals away, Earth must lose the same amount of angular momentum. 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 landmasses, which, because of rotation, are moving eastward. The net result is that the westward motion of the tides -- slowing down the rotation, retards the eastward revolution. The day is getting longer by about 0.002 seconds per century. It does not sound like much, but over billions of years, it adds up.\n\nOn a moonless Earth, the only tides would be from the Sun. The Sun accounts for one-third of the tides on Earth today. Therefore, Earth would still experience some tides and its rotation would still slow down, but not nearly by as much as nonce. A moonless Earth day would be around eight hours long at this time in its life, 4.6 billion years after it formed.\n\nAdditionally, the faster a planet rotates, the faster its winds blow. Higher winds and the shorter days on Earth would have major effects on evolution; imagine what day-to-day life would be like with only three or four hours of sunlight each day, much different than now…\n\nLess protection from meteors and imminent impacts, as you can see, the Moon has shielded us from a cosmic bombardment, just look at its surface.
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It spins roughly at the speed it orbits earth. I believe there is a slight "wobble" in the spin which enables astronomers to see about 3/4 of the moon over time. \nIf it spun at the same speed as the earth, the spin would have no effect on earth, but it would cause the moon to get hot inside because of the tidal effect. \nThe tidal effect acts like a brake.