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Originally posted by Tom Bedlam
It does spin.
Although from Earth's view the moon doesn't rotate
Why Doesn't the Moon Rotate? In comparison, the tidal effect on the Moon is static because the Moon no longer rotates in relation to the Earth.
Does the Moon spin on its axis? No it doesn't ! If it was spinning/ rotating (on its own axis, by definition), and we could somehow stop its orbit around the earth (or even suddenly straighten it into a line), it should then continue spinning. It obviously won't. It will just sit there angularly motionless as it always has.
The reason why the Moon doesn’t rotate is because of weights that are placed at both poles which are magnetic in nature. There are 4 pyramids on the Moon, with 1 being at the far sides equator.
There is more than one tidal locking mode. Mercury, for example, is resonantly locked to the Sun at a 3:2 ratio.
It was thought for some time that Mercury was tidally locked with the Sun. This was because whenever Mercury was best placed for observation, the same side faced inward. Radar observations in 1965 demonstrated instead that Mercury has a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, rotating three times for every two revolutions around the Sun, which results in the same positioning at those observation points. The eccentricity of Mercury's orbit makes this 3:2 resonance stable.
Originally posted by Anunaki10
Although from Earth's view the moon doesn't rotate
www.digipro.com...
Why Doesn't the Moon Rotate? In comparison, the tidal effect on the Moon is static because the Moon no longer rotates in relation to the Earth.
Does the Moon spin on its axis?
4 pyramids on the Moon, with 1 being at the far sides equator.
There is more than one tidal locking mode. Mercury, for example, is resonantly locked to the Sun at a 3:2 ratio.
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The eccentricity of Mercury's orbit makes this 3:2 resonance stable.
Originally posted by Anunaki10
www.pbs.org...
Although from Earth's view the moon doesn't rotate
Originally posted by Bedlam
Originally posted by Anunaki10
Although from Earth's view the moon doesn't rotate
Key word "Earth's point of view". If it didn't rotate, you would see the entire surface of the Moon, depending on how far west or east you traveled.
Although from Earth's view the moon doesn't rotate
www.digipro.com...
Why Doesn't the Moon Rotate? In comparison, the tidal effect on the Moon is static because the Moon no longer rotates in relation to the Earth.
Again, same as the previous one,
Why Doesn't the Moon Rotate? In comparison, the tidal effect on the Moon is static because the Moon no longer rotates in relation to the Earth.
Wikianswers is not exactly a great reference.
Does the Moon spin on its axis? No it doesn't ! IF it was spinning / rotating (on its own axis, by definition), and we could somehow stop its orbit around the earth (or even suddenly straighten it into a line), it should then continue spinning. It obviously won't. It will just sit there angularly motionless as it always has.
That one's not worth bothering to respond to...
Originally posted by Anunaki10
You misunderstand something here,
Although from Earth's view the moon doesn't rotate
which means that the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, which again means that Moon does NOT rotate on it's own axis in relation to the Earth...
In comparison, the tidal effect on the Moon is static because the Moon no longer rotates in relation to the Earth.
It's at least thousands of times more reliable than you will ever be, and let me repeat it since you are struggling trying to understand that
Don't expect me to believe you on that, i think you are lying again...
Although from Earth's view the moon doesn't rotate, with respect to the sun it does. Take a look at the animation above. Look only at the moon. (The red dot marks a fixed point on the moon's surface.) See how it does rotate on an axis?
You might be struggling against the nuances in the meanings of the words "rotate" and "revolve." The Moon ROTATES about its axis at exactly the same rate as it REVOLVES around the Earth. That's an important point about tidal locking.
For example, the same side of the Earth's Moon always faces the Earth. A tidally locked body takes just as long to rotate around its own axis as it does to revolve around its partner. This causes one hemisphere constantly to face the partner body.
Is there really anyone believing this propaganda that our moon is spinning on it's own axis?
i really was happy that within two posts the author of the thread had accepted the rotation of the moon. But five pages in and a troll still denies makes me sad.
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
a reply to: FIFIGI
you can demonstrate the fact that the moon rotates on its axis once every 28 days - using nothing more than a cup and saucer