Model of Earth, Moon & Sun’s Orbit moon sun
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moon sun Moon’s Orbit: The moon’s orbit is almost a perfect circle.
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moon sun Moon’s Orbit: It takes about 27 days (almost 1 month) for the moon to orbit the Earth.
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moon sun Moon’s Orbit: The same side of the moon always faces the Earth due to tidal forces.
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moon sun Earth’s Rotation: The Earth makes one complete rotation on it’s axis in 24 hours or 1 day, causing day and night.
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moon sun Earth’s Revolution: The Earth makes one complete revolution around the sun in 365 days or 1 year, causing the seasons.
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moon sun Sun’s Rotation:  Did you know that the sun is a ball of gas that also rotates on it’s axis?  The gasses rotate once in about 27 days.
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Earth, Sun, Moon Rotation Flipbook