Does the moon really not rotate?👀🤷♂️
Discussion
In relation to what?
It facing the earth
It rotates but does not spin...
Does it always point toward the earth in the same direction. That seems highly unlikely to be a constant.
the moon is a satelite. do satalites rotate?
Assume you want a satellite to constantly point its radio dish towards Earth while orbiting it, or its solar panels towards the Sun if it is instead orbiting it. Is any of the following true about what is needed to achieve this?
•continuous change in its orientation,
•once and for all giving it the right spin to begin with,
•it happens naturally.
The last point is true for a toy car on a sloping road curve, it keeps the same side facing the center of a circular track.
Yes but a car isn't round. Shouldn't there be some degree of change in relationship to the earth?
what does the shape of the moon have to do with it? its relationship to the earth is similar to a satalite man puts in its orbit. it behaves the same 🤷🏾♂️
do satalites rotate, why or why not?
is it true that the moon is a piece of the earth that broke off and got caught in earths orbit? like a satalite man sends up in earths orbit? 🤷🏾♂️
Idk. Seems like if that's the case it would rotate, right? Why would it stop?
no 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣 so whats the answer?
Tidal locking
its locked ie no it doesnt rotate hence we see the same side of the moon. like the truck example.
Turns out spheres rotate at different speeds
Tidal locking between a pair of co-orbiting astronomical bodies occurs when one of the objects reaches a state where there is no longer any net change in its rotation rate over the course of a complete orbit.
For example, the same side of the Moon always faces the Earth, although there is some variability because the Moon's orbit is not perfectly circular. Usually, only the satellite is tidally locked to the larger body.
Tiiiiggghhttt
It does rotate
What may really break your brain is, why is the side that always faces us so full of huge craters? Wouldn't earth's gravity pull such large meteors toward us, instead? Think of the angle of impact that they appear to have... how?
Ask nostr:npub1kcj0d5qp2rmz760txpwnxwwm9luc6h88w7uf6t8muatfw96fg7gshj8nkw he prob knows
im relying on mythology. tiamat is the story of the creation of the moon. what i think is dope is that saturn was the first sun 🛸🛸🛸
I dont know. I'd assume it would rotate some degree.
Yes, the side facing away from earth is called the dark side of the moon.