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Old Aug 28, 2007, 11:11 pm   #119 (permalink) (top)
Keith Hamburger
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The moon doesnt spin on an axis like the earth. it does complete revolutions though. But it does not spin on an axis.
Ummm ... wrong. The moon spins on its axis to match it's revolution. It is tidally locked to the Earth so it always presents the same face. It has to spin on its axis, relative to the sun, for example, for that to occur. The sun sees the moon rotating. We don't because the moon moves around the Earth at the as it rotates.

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