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From: benw@desoto.UUCP (B Weber)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: heavenly bodies
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Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 13:47:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  8 13:47:26 1984
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The moon does inded rotate on its axis...it just so happens that the
period of rotation is exactly one earth day, so the same side of
the moon always faces us.  Try to picture the rotation of the moon
from a point out of the earth-moon system; then try to picture it
without the earth.  The moon slowly rotates.

						Ben Weber
						ATTT