2007-09-29 11:08:45 · 20 answers · asked by Jessica 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Just as long as the earth.... The moon rotates arround the earth, and the earth rotates arround the sun, therefore the moon rotates arround the sun...
2007-09-29 11:11:36 · answer #1 · answered by Kyle R 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing rotates around the sun (except the sun).
Rotate means to turn on its axis (like Earth's rotation is one day).
You meant revolve around the sun. And it would take the moon one year to revolve around the sun, since the moon orbits the Earth and its this Earth/moon system that revolves around the sun - the moon is not a separately-orbiting object.
2007-09-29 19:42:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On average, same time as Earth.
On a given year, the Moon could start behind the Earth (First Quarter) and finish ahead of Earth (after Full Moon), so that it would have taken the Moon 354 days to make it around the Sun; on another year it would be the other way around (377 days) and on most years, it would be a number closer to 365.25 (plus or minus a few days).
But on a very long term average, the value will be the same as Earth as both are moving around the Sun as one system.
2007-09-29 18:16:58 · answer #3 · answered by Raymond 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A simpler word for rotating is "spinning". The moon doesn't rotate around the sun, it rotates around itself, or its axis of spin, just like the Earth does each day.
The moon REVOLVES around the Earth once every 29.53 days. As the Earth is itself revolving around the sun once a year, the moon could be said to be doing the same.
2007-09-29 18:19:53 · answer #4 · answered by Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The moon travels *with Earth* around the sun. It takes Earth about 365 days (..1 year..) to travel around the sun one time. I'm betting you can figure out from that how long it takes the moon to travel around the sun once : )
2007-09-29 18:59:23 · answer #5 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Roughly about the sametime that the Earth does !?! I guess depending on which side of the Earth the mOOn is on when it completes it's rotation around the Sun !?!. I know what I mean when I typed that !! you'll have to ask a scientist about things such as rotation & or orbit/times
2007-09-29 18:28:15 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a confusing bunch of answers! Maybe because the question isn't clearly phrased.
It all depends on your frame of reference. From the Earth's point of view, the Moon revolves around the Earth once every 29 days. From the Sun's point of view, the Moon revolves around it once every 365 days, but it's a "wavy" orbit because the Earth's gravity pulls it this way and that.
Think of one of those horses which go up and down on a merry-go-round. From the point of view of the pole the horse is attached to (think Earth) the horse simply goes up and down. From the point of view of the centre of the merry-go-round (think Sun), the horse goes around in a circle but the circle wobbles up and down in a complicated path.
Finally, using the words properly, the Moon doesn't "rotate" around the Sun; the only thing it rotates around is its own axis. Objects rotAte around their Axis, and revOlve in their Orbit.
2007-09-29 19:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes one year to rotate around the sun...it goes around the Earth as the Earth goes around the sun.
2007-09-29 18:16:53 · answer #8 · answered by Chris B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Ok well the moon goes around the earth in about 28.5 days. But because of the way you asked the queston it is 365.25 because the moon is traveling with the earth it takes the same time to go around the sun.
2007-09-29 23:04:47 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kyle is correct. The Earth and moon are as 1 body when revolving around the sun.
2007-09-29 18:18:40 · answer #10 · answered by pd6491 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋