The Earth takes a year to orbit around the Sun. What about the Moon?
Does it orbit the Earth?
Choose the answer you think best describes the motion of the Moon.
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A.
The Moon orbits the Earth about once a day.
B. The Moon orbits the Earth about once a week.
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C. The Moon orbits the Earth about once a month.
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D. The Moon orbits the Earth about once a year.
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E. The Moon does not orbit the Earth.
PART B
Describe your thinking. Provide an explanation to support your answer.

Answer

C. The Moon orbits the Earth about once a month

Over billions of years the earth’s gravitational field has tidally locked the moon in orbit so that its rotation about its axis is the same as that of its orbit around the earth.

This process is still continuing as the earth transfers some of its angular momentum to the moon lifting it to a higher orbit by a couple of centimeters a year. As it rises, its takes a fraction longer to complete an orbit, and its rotational speed slows down slightly to match.

The eventual conclusion of this is that the earth also would become tidally locked to the moon, and they will both face each other permanently. But this is going to take that long that the sun will probably have destroyed both the earth and the moon in its red giant phase before this happens.

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