you're splitting hairs. I said "The moon doesn't spin on an axis like the earth"
what part of that is wrong?
if you think of the earth as the sun and the moon as the earth, the moon does not spin on an axis like the earth does.
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the Moon's rotation on its axis is synchronously locked with its revolution around Earth,
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Libration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
oh and how do they measure librations? yeah, with laser measurements thanks to the APOLLO LANDINGS that DID take place. (back on subject)
from the wiki link
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/c...&filetype=.pdf