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The Earth revolves in its daily motion an anti clockwise direction and orbits the sun in an anti clockwise direction
The Moon orbits the Earth in an anti clockwise direction
How fast would the Moon be moving if the Earth was not in motion in its daily revolution.

2007-10-16 02:24:37 · 8 answers · asked by jupiteress 7 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

The Moon travels at approx 13 degrees in 24 hours.
The Earth revolves at about 1 degree in 24 hours.
The Earth has some to a stand still and so how fast will the Moon be seen to move in its orbit.

2007-10-16 02:42:17 · update #1

Sorry the Earth in its orbit travels at approx 1 degree in a day.

2007-10-16 02:44:56 · update #2

8 answers

The Moon is 238000 miles from Earth
The length of its orbit is 1,495,398 miles
one orbit is 27.3 days=655.2 hours
1,495,398 ÷ 655.2
The Moon travels around the Earth at about 2282.4 mph

2007-10-16 04:15:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

First of all clockwise and anti-clockwise have no meaning in 3-D space, without a point of reference.

Currently the moons period of rotation is exactly the same as the earths, 1 earth day. Which is why you only ever see one face of the moon. If the earth suddenly stopped spinning this would not effect the momentum of the moon and it would just keep spinning.

the earth and the moon are caught is a interesting orbit around a barycenter below the earths surface but not in the center of the earth, which means the gravitation forces between the bodies are not balanced which explains tides among other things. this gravitation change has lead to a decreased rotational period on both the moon and the earth over millions of years, as well as the moon being push away from the earth at a rate of about 1 inch a year.

2007-10-16 02:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 1 0

The gunpowder might want to propel the bullet both, although the bullet would not decelerate as plenty, because the moon don't have an ecosystem like the Earth. So particular, it is going to generally commute somewhat bit swifter. The bullet might want to also journey really plenty more suitable, because there's a lot less gravity to provide the bullet back off the floor. If we get to the bottom of the cost into aspects, gravity greatest impacts the vertical %, now no longer the horizontal, so with a similar initial velocity and a lesser gravity, the hollow travelled might want to be higher.

2016-10-21 06:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by favreau 3 · 0 0

the question is how fast is the moon moving... not how fast is the moon moving in its orbit around the earth...

since the moon orbits the earth... and the earth orbits the sun, and the speed in which the earth moves around the sun is approximately 67,000 mph. the moon has to be going just as fast...

2014-06-23 12:46:34 · answer #4 · answered by anthony 1 · 0 0

The last response here was 7 years ago. A guy said distance around orbit is pi X 240k mi... but that's wrong. Nobody corrected this in 7 years. It's 2pi r because the 240K distance is a r, not a d.

2014-11-27 09:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0 0

If the Earth was not in motion, the moon would float away without its gravitational pull.
This is of no use in a hypothetical question like yours, so I guesstimate 1000 mph.

2007-10-16 02:39:34 · answer #6 · answered by Merovingian 6 · 0 0

The Moon orbits Earth at an average distance of about 240,000 miles. So the distance around that orbit it PI * 240,000 or about 754,000 miles. It completes one orbit in about 28 days, so it moves about 2,692 miles a day or 1,122 miles per hour. That is about 1,870 kilometers per hour. Of course these are all approximate, rounded numbers, not an exact result.

2007-10-16 02:52:53 · answer #7 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 2

3.300 feet per second.

2007-10-16 13:49:03 · answer #8 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0 0

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