How long does it take the moon to orbit the earth?
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It depends on how you define "orbit". \n\nIf you define orbit to mean the time it takes the Moon to come back to the same point with respect to the Sun (new moon to new moon), that is a synodic month, which is 29.53059 days.\n\nIf you define orbit to mean the time it takes the Moon to come back to the same point with respect to a fixed star, that is a sideral month, which is 27.32166 days.\n\nIf you define orbit to mean the time it takes the Moon to come back to the same point with respect to the intersection of the equator and ecliptic, that is a tropical month, which is 27.32158 days.\n\nIf you define orbit to mean the time it takes the Moon to come back to its perigee, that is an anomalistic month, which is 27.55455 days.\n\nIf you define orbit to mean the time it takes the Moon to return to its ecliptical ascending node, that is a draconic month, which is 27.21222 days.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles
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The 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 (Greek for moon), 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 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light).\n\nThe first man-made object to land on the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959, the first photographs of the otherwise occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year, and the first people to land on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969.
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Man has been tracking time for tens of thousands of years.  Beyond the daily cycle of the sun, what is there to use to track time?  The moon and the stars.\n\nIt takes the moon about 29 1/2 days to go around the Earth, about a month.  The word "month" is derived from the same root as the word "moon."\n\nThe Earth revolves around the Sun over the course of a year, but if you don't know that, it appears that the entire universe of stars revolve around the Earth and Sun.  It takes about 365 1/4 days for the stars to go back to where they started, and that makes a year.\n\nSo the moon revolves around the Earth about 12 times a year, and thus we have 12 months.\n\nBut actually it takes fewer than 360 days for the moon to go around the Earth 12 times.  The months had to be lengthened so that 12 months match one year.  (Other societies used lunar calendars, which kept the month based on the moon's cycle.)  30 days per month would still make the year too short, and 31 days per month would make the year too long.  Thus we have some months 30 days and others 31 (and one other).\n\nEven still, the length of the year doesn't exactly match the revolution of the Earth around the Sun, so we make adjustments.  Every four years, we add a day to February.\n\nAnd still it's not perfect, so every 400 years, we don't add that day to February.\n\nAs for why February starts with only 28 days is not known for sure.  There have been different explanations, but it comes down to someone a long time ago making a pretty odd decision.
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Because it takes the earth 24 hours to orbit, . I know what you mean though, i wish there were more hours in the day.
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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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When the moon is full, it is on the side of the Earth opposite the sun. It takes the moon about a month to go around the Earth once. So in the course of a single day, it remains in almost the same position.
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The average Earth-Moon distance is about 385,000 km.  Remember, the average is important because the moon rotates around the Earth in an eliptical fashion, which means that there are times when the moon is closer to the Earth than others depending on the point in its rotation.
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Tidal forces from the moon are slowing down the Earth's rotation.  The Earth won't really stop rotating completely, but sometime in the far far future the day length will be equal to the time it takes for the moon to orbit us once.(one month) Eventually one side of Earth will always face the moon, just like one side of the moon always faces Earth.  (note that one day on the moon is equal to one month)
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Yes, our moon orbits our planet, and together they orbit our sun.  Also, our solar system orbits the center of our galaxy.
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The Earth's circumference is 23,627 miles or about 24,000 miles and the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 238,900 or about 240,000 miles.  If the students are learning the metric system, the figures are 38,025 km or about 38,000 km for the Earth's circumference and 384,400 km for the average Earth-Luna distance.
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With the average distance between the Earth and the Moon being 238,857 miles...the total distance of 600 round trips between the Earth and the Moon is approximately 286,628,400 miles.
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The moon's distance from earth is about 240,000 miles.  The orbit is roughly circular (only 5% eccentricity), so 2π*240,000 = 1.5 million miles is the circumference.  The moon travels this distance in 29.5 days, so its speed is about 51,000 miles per day or about 2100 miles per hour.
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The sun is 93 million miles from Earth on the average, since the Earth does have a slightly elliptical orbit. How long it takes to get there is kind of an incomplete question because it all depends what you want to do when you get there.\n\nIt wouldn't take long for a spacecraft to fly straight to the sun and either fall into it or zoom by and then off into space, but if you wan to launch a probe to study the sun you have to be more clever.  \n\nThe link below is information on the Ulysses probe sent out in 1990. Ulysses actually did something of a "bank shot" off of Jupiter in order to get into an orbit where it goes around the sun over its poles rather than around the middle, which is rather cool that it worked so well.  Imagine playing billiards on a table three miles long and two wide and sinking the eight in a corner pocket after banking off of two cushions -- and then multiply that by a million, and you have a good idea how difficult this stuff is.
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It takes the earth approximately 365.25 days to orbit around the sun. A normal year is 365 days, then they add an extra day every four years when those four quarter days add up. However,they do not add the day on certain years, because it is just under a quarter of a day extra per year. So 2000 was NOT a leap year, for example.\n\nWe get "leap seconds"occasionally, too. It's all just trying to keep our artificial calendars in sync with the earth's orbit around the sun.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles);
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi).