81.2k views
5 votes
How fast does the moon rotate around the Earth?

User Ric Tokyo
by
4.7k points

2 Answers

4 votes

Answer:

approximately 27 days

The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis.

Step-by-step explanation:

User Arda Basoglu
by
4.6k points
4 votes

The moon orbits the Earth once every 27.322 days. It also takes approximately 27 days for the moon to rotate once on its axis. As a result, the moon does not seem to be spinning but appears to observers from Earth to be keeping almost perfectly still.

User Karen Baghdasaryan
by
5.1k points