C) – The moon is ONLY *revolving* around the combined mass of the Earth and the moon, which is called a *barycenter*. The Earth-moon barycenter is a...
A perfect frictionless bearing would still need some force to either start or stop it. E.g., the Earth & moon have the braking friction caused by...
---snip from Ken's Post 94--- A simple demonstration - draw a happy-face on an orange, then go into a darkened room and take the shade off of one...
Moving at a steady rate it will not rotate out there. However, if you accelerate it, then it will spin until slowed by friction. Once friction has...
I FORGOT - since *it's* is the contraction of the two words *it is*, *ITS* (without the apostrophe) is the possessive form of *IT* Likewise, there...
It's interesting to be called an "idiot" by someone that doesn't know the correct forms of "IT!" Don't they teach that in jr. High? *it's* is the...
You say, "therefore it must have rotated about its own axis." Geeze ... how many times do I need to ask you guys to SPECIFY the EXACT location...
” Trippy, what is at issue here is NOT whether or not the moon is spinning around an axis (it does), ONLY the LOCATION of that axis!!!! Some...
Your graphics #1 thru #3 are NOT posted anywhere close to your graphic #4 – it would have been easier to post one of the #1 thru #3 graphics near the...
NO, I am instead saying that the moon ONLY revolves around an exterior axis once each 27.3 day orbit, and that axis the moon is revolving around is...
That's absolutely NOT true!!! Since I don't have full posting privileges yet and can't post your images side by side for easier comparison, why...
Hi - I don't think I saw any earlier post by you. However, I think your comment concerns how a moon(s) may influence a planet's ability to evolve...
Billy-bob, do you have any actual proof that a Foucault pendulum would work on the moon? If so, please do post it! Since you're such an...
Since the moon is revolving around an exterior axis (the barycenter within the Earth), if the Earth were magically removed, then the moon would...
Huh? In plain English please? Ken
#1 - that graphic has nothing in common with your earlier 3 graphics which all (more or less) had kept their same side pointing towards the center....
I have NOT erred! You have! So, perhaps, you should follow your own advice? As the Earth orbits the sun it rotates 365.25 times around its...
Thank you about the writing praise, but don't expect an admission from me any time soon that the moon rotates around its polar axis! :) A...
Hi, back at ya! :) Why avoid the word "spinning" since it's a perfectly good word? Because there are potentially two axes involved (the...
Frankly, I don't see any difference between graphics #1 & #2 – even so, both moons appear to be tidally locked showing only the white face towards...
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