When I'm out set up for Sidewalk Astronomy and someone asks why we see the
same side all the time, I use the simple way of telling them and then they
are happy.

"The moon takes about 29 days to go around the Earth, at the same time it's
spinging on it's own at a rate of One Turn every 29 days. Thus the two go
together so it shows the same face to us all the time.


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"BenignVanilla" wrote in message
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"Greg Neill" wrote in message
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It's not a coincidence. We see the same side because
the Moon's rotation is gravitationally locked to the
Earth.


Have you ever explained this to a non-Astro geek. I have. It's fun to hear
the arguments about how I am wrong about it. LOL.

BV.
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