Assertion: moon's day | /r/HasProperty | 7 hours
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text: the period of time ( tropical month ) taken by the moon to return to the same longitude after one complete revolution around the earth; 27.321 58 days (approximately 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.5 seconds)
text: The length of the sidereal month is 27.321 days or 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11.5 seconds.
text: Because of the Earth's precession, the Moon takes slightly less time to return to an ecliptic longitude of zero than to return to the same point with respect to the celestial sphere, yielding a tropical month of 27.321 days (27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.7 seconds).
text: It is about 27.32166 days (27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11.6 seconds).
text: But as astronomers have discovered from centuries of studying the Moon’s behavior, the Moon’s orbital period (i.e. the time it takes for the Moon to complete a single orbit around the Earth) is actually the equivalent of about 27.3 Earth days – or 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes and 11.5 seconds, to be precise.
text: It takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes for our Moon to complete one full orbit around Earth.