EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Yes. The Moon takes about one month to orbit Earth (27.3 days to complete a revolution, but 29.5 days to change from New Moon to New Moon). As the Moon completes each 27.3-day orbit around Earth, both Earth and the Moon are moving around the Sun.

Detailed explanation-2: -The moon takes about 27.3 days to revolve round the earth in a nearly circular orbit of radius 3.84×105 km.

Detailed explanation-3: -It takes the Moon 27.3 days to make a complete orbit around the Earth, but because the Earth is moving around the sun at the same time, it takes the moon 29.5 days to go through its eight different ‘phases’ – a lunar month.

Detailed explanation-4: -The moon completes one (circular) orbit of the earth in 27.3 days. The distance from the earth to the moon is 3.84×108m.

Detailed explanation-5: -The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still. Scientists call this synchronous rotation.