Do we orbit the moon or sun, or what? What orbits what?
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the solar system is a little more complex than that.  everything in the solar system orbits a common center of mass called a barycenter.  the more massive objects are closest to it so the sun is closest.  jupiter is so massive that the solar system's barycenter is outside the solar surface.  the earth is farther away so it essentially orbits around the sun while the sun orbits the barycenter.  the earth and moon orbit their own common center of mass.  this barycenter is within the earth so the moon essentially orbits the earth.  i hope this answers your question.\n\nread these pages:\nhttp://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/barycntr.shtml\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system
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The moon and all planetary bodies, satellites, stars, space debris rotate.\n\nHere are links that may give you more info.\n\nThe first two are about moons, the third one about Saturn's moon Hyperion, which has a scre.w.ed up rotation
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the Moon\n\nwhy?\n\nthe Sun has a greater gravitational pull on Earth, than the Moon does.\n\nbut what matters are tidal forces, i.e. the difference in how strong the body pulls on the side of the Earth closer to it, and the other side, further from it.\n\nin the case of the Sun, which is very far, the difference in the force on the side of the Earth facing the Sun, and that facing away, is tiny\n\nwhereas in the case of the Moon, which is of course much smaller but also much, much closer, that difference is quite important\n\ntherefore, on the Earth, the tidal forces from the Moon are massively higher than those from the Sun\n\nwhich is why the Moon controls tides
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The sun does attract the earth quite a bit. That's what keeps the earth orbiting it instead of flying off into space.
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No.  The sun is one of the stars. The earth and the other planets move around the star we call our sun.
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the moon doesnt circle the sun the moon circles the earth the earth circles the sun
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satellites.\n\nfor sure
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if any object following a straight or whatever path was to be attracted by some other larger body and put into and orbit then thru mathematical equations the orbit will always be elliptical(considering variable decceleration and velocity) that's why there is a doubt that moon was just a passing object that earth caught up..(coz it's orbit is circular and that it perfectly covers up the sun during eclipses....search for anomalies of the moon on google) so the orbit cannot be circular unless u "put" an object specifically into that shaped path...\n\nregards...\npretty rough explaination ..sorry cud not include the equations :)\n\nvivek
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The moon's orbit is nearly circular and traverses 13.2 degrees along this orbit over the course of a day. Its orbital velocity varies from 0.964 to 1.076 (mean 1.023) kilometers/sec (multiply the mean by 86,400 to get the number of km/day traveled. Multiply by 0.62137 to convert to miles). See the provided links for any additional information you may be looking for.
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Luna is in a state of synchronous rotation, meaning that it takes the same period to revolve around its axis and it takes to orbit the Earth.  It's been a while since I've taken highschool physics, but I believe tidal 'locking' is a factor here.  And yes, the Moon DOES spin.
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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 moon has a side that always faces us! That's not always filled with light though. That's why we have phases of the moon.
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Earth and all the planets in out solar system are orbiting our Sun. The Sun and all stars are moving in space, but those other stars are not moving around US; they are orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Because the stars are so far away from us it takes thousands of years before they have moved far enough for us to notice it from so far away, but astronomers have made careful measurements with telescopes and can detect small position changes, which they call "proper motion". I googled "proper motion" and below is the first result.
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The moon orbits the earth.  It does not 'rise'.  Look in any good newspaper to see what time it is visible in your area.  This information can be found in the weather section.
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Our moon is locked in what is known as a geo-synchronous orbit. For millions of years the angular momentum has stablized the moon to provide very little loss of energy between earth and moon. This does not account for the influences that the moon has upon our oceans though. (Tides) Our solar system has "moved about" for many millions of years to allow for efficient energy transfers between baryonic masses.  This is not unlike a person who sit's in a chair and move's about to become more comfortable.  Peace
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Consider that the Earth moves around the Sun because of gravity, like a ball on a rope moves around your hand when you swing it.\n\nNow, consider some of the laws of gravity (in english):\nCloser objects = more gravity to eachother\nBIGGER objects = more gravity to them\n\nThe Earth is 1/100000(lots of 0's, maybe more) the size of the Sun, so we really don't affect it much, but it keeps us going around it like nuts! (once a year, right?)\n\nThe Moon, however, is not sooooo different from the size of the Earth (yes it's smaller, but not 1/10000etc(like the Earth vs. Sun thing), AND it's CLOSER to the Earth than the Sun is (WAY CLOSER)!\n\nSo because it's kindda nearer to our size, and it's kindda close, it's got 2 big check-marks for LOTS-O-Gravity!
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The correct option is 'rotation of the earth'. When earth revolves, some part of it is directly facing the sun, and the other part is not. That explains the presence of day in one part of the world, and night in the other.