How many times does the moon revolve around the earth in one night?

Question

I don't know how these quotes about the moon taking more than a day can be right. I see the moon all over the place at night. And sometimes I see it in the day. No matter where I am in the world, I see it every night. So what's the deal?

Answer 1

The Moon rotates on it's axis and revolves around the Earth in 27 1/3 days. The time from one full moon to the next is 29 1/2 days. The reason they are not the same is that during the 27 1/3 days that it take the Moon to go around the Earth, the Earth has moved relative to the Sun, and it takes another 2 days or so before the Moon is directly on the other side of the Sun (which is what gives a full moon). It is similar to the reason why the Earth rotates on its axis once every 23 hours 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds, but its 24 hours from noon to noon.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

You see the moon in different places at different times of night largely because of the rotation of the Earth, just like the sun moves around in the sky mostly because of the Earth's rotation (as opposed to the sun revolving around the Earth, or more accurately the Earth revolving around the Sun.)

The moon's motion around the Earth results in it rising about 50 minutes later each night. This works out to about 12 degrees of movement relative to the sun every 24 hours so about 6 (of the 180 total) degrees of its motion in the sky in a single night is attributable to its orbital motion around the Earth. (Note that this 6 degrees is against the bulk of its apparent motion through the sky, so this means it moves a sets a little later than you would expect if it was magically staked in one position in its orbit).

Answer 4

The Moon orbits Earth each 27.3 days. even with the undeniable fact that, Earth is spinning on its axis as quickly as each 24 hours, way speedier than the Moon's orbit, meaning that the Moon passes overhead daily. there's a quantity of time interior the Lunar cycle, greater or less seven days, that we can not truthfully see the moon, through fact the section dealing with Earth isn't illuminated. yet that would not recommend that is not there. in certainty, out of the great 27.3 days of the Moon's orbit around the Earth, that is seen the two in daytime or at evening, for greater or less 20-21 of those days.

Answer 5

In one night (@1/2 day) the moon makes @1/56th of a revolution around the Earth (1/2 of a full revolution, which takes @ 28 days).

To illustrate, sit in a swivel chair and have a friend walk slowly around you while you're spinning the chair very quickly. You'll see him / her 'go by' you several times while they go around you only once. The 'day' is one spin of your chair, the revolution is one of your friend's trips around your chair.

Answer 6

It revolves areound the earth once in every MONTH. That is why we don't see the moon during the new moon. And term "month" came from the word moon

Answer 7

about 1/29 times, the moon revolves around the earth once in a lunar month, which is slightly shorter than a month.

Answer 8

0. The moon takes 27.32 days to rotate around the earth which is an angle of about 13° per day. The Earth however rotates 360° per day, so the Moon APPEARS to go backwards (East-to-West) at a rate of 347° per day, or 0.96 revolutions per day, or about 0.48 revolutions per night.

Answer 9

once

if you are talking about "one night" then the answer hopefully is 1/2. Because the other half is day time in which it would be night on the other side of the earth and vice-versa.

Answer 10

27.321 days it takes for the moon to make one orbit. So 1/27.312th of the orbit is completed in 24 hours.