Assertion: moon | /r/CapableOf | orbit the earth
Facets:
value: in the same direction
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: as the earth's axial rotation
type: TEMPORAL
value: about once
type: TEMPORAL
value: in the prograde direction
type: LOCATION
value: at a different angle
type: MANNER
value: as its only natural satellite
type: MANNER
value: in turn
type: TEMPORAL
value: in roughly 29.5 days
type: TEMPORAL
value: in a cycle
type: TEMPORAL
value: at the same time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: While the Moon is orbiting the Earth, the Earth is progressing in its orbit around the Sun.
text: However, at the same time as the Moon is orbiting Earth, our planet also continues its annual orbit around the Sun in the same direction.
text: The Moon orbits around the Earth.
text: An anomalistic month is longer than a sidereal month because the perigee moves in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth, one revolution in nine years.
text: As the moon orbits the Earth, its position relative to the Earth and sun changes, and the moon appears to go through phases.
text: The problem is that as the Moon is orbiting the Earth, the Earth is going around the Sun; and while the Moon is busy completing its orbit of the Earth, the Earth moves a twelfth of the way around the Sun.
text: The moon orbits the Earth at the same time it takes to rotate once.
text: As the Moon orbits the Earth, the angle between the Moon and the Sun increases.
text: A synodic month is longer than a sidereal month because the Earth-Moon system is orbiting the Sun in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth.
text: An anomalistic month is longer than a sidereal month because the perigee moves in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth, one revolution in nine years.
text: A draconic month is shorter than a sidereal month because the nodes move in the opposite direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth, one revolution in 18.6 years.
text: A synodic month is longer than a sidereal month because the Earth-Moon system is orbiting the Sun in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth.
text: This is the time it takes for the Moon to orbit the Earth relative to the view of the stars.
text: Although the Moon orbits the Earth once every 27.3 days, keeping the same face pointing inward at all times, the Earth is going around the Sun in the same direction (counter-clockwise).
text: During the course of the nodal period, as the Moon orbits the Earth, its declination swings from –m° to +
text: The lunar cycle is the appearance of phases of the Moon as viewed from Earth, as the Moon orbits the Earth about once every 27 days.
text: The lunar phases vary cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun.
text: The moon, in turn, orbits the Earth, in a cycle which takes approximately 27 days.
text: The Moon almost constantly occults faint stars as it orbits the Earth
text: As the Moon orbits the Earth, while the Earth orbits the sun, the Moon exhibits different lunar phases.
text: As it orbits the Earth, it goes through phases, and sunlight and shadows create a slightly different look each night.
text: This period is typically about 50 minutes longer than a 24-hour Earth day, as the Moon orbits the Earth in the same direction as the Earth's axial rotation.
text: This period is typically about 50 minutes longer than a 24-hour Earth day, as the Moon orbits the Earth in the same direction as the Earth's axial rotation.
text: Since the Moon is orbiting the Earth in the same direction of the Earth's rotation, the high tides occur about every 12 hours and 25 minutes; the 25 minutes is due to the Moon's time to orbit the Earth.
text: Waxing Crescent: As the moon orbits the earth, the angle between it, the earth, and the sun change.
text: As the Moon orbits the earth we see different sides of the Moon that is facing the sun, and hence different shapes.
text: As the moon orbits the earth and changes its position in relationship to the sun and the observer on earth, the moon goes through a cycle of 29-30 “phases,” its lit surface waxing and waning from dark to fully lit, and back to dark.
text: It takes place when the moon crosses the sun’s plane while orbiting the earth and comes in front of the sun, which obscures its view either partly or entirely.
text: The months were 29 or 30 days in length, loosely in alternation, since the moon orbits the earth in roughly 29.5 days.
text: As the moon orbits the earth, its appearance (the "phase") changes and thus gives us an indication of the moon's progress in the cycle (the "age").
text: As the moon orbits the earth, its appearance (the "phase") changes and thus gives us an indication of the moon's progress in the cycle (the "age").
text: You might be wondering why we don’t have a lunar eclipse every month as the moon orbits Earth.
text: The Moon orbits Earth about once every 29 and a half days.
text: Now you might be wondering "If the Moon orbits Earth every 29.5 days and lunar eclipses only occur at Full Moon, then why don't we have an eclipse once a month during Full Moon?
text: But because the moon orbits Earth at a different angle than Earth orbits the sun, a new moon brings a solar eclipse only occasionally.
text: The Moon is an astronomical body orbiting Earth as its only natural satellite.
text: The Moon is in synchronous rotation as it orbits Earth; it rotates about its axis in about the same time it takes to orbit Earth.
text: The Moon orbits Earth in the prograde direction and completes one revolution relative to the stars in about 27.32 days (a sidereal month) and one revolution relative to the Sun in about 29.53 days (a synodic month).
text: And this the same time it takes for the Moon to orbit around the Earth.
text: The Moon changes its apparent shape with four distinct phases depending on the Moon’s position as it orbits around the Earth, and the Earth’s position as it orbits around the Sun.
text: And this the same time it takes for the Moon to orbit around the Earth.
text: A lunar month, is the time required for the moon to orbit once around the earth and pass through its complete cycle of phases.