EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -This movement is from the Moon’s orbit, which takes 27 days, 7 hours and 43 minutes to go full circle.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -An orbit is the path an object takes in space around another. The Moon makes 1 complete orbit of the Earth every 27.3 days. It travels around the Earth at about 4, 000 kilometres an hour. We see the Moon because it reflects the Sun’s light.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.