Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: heavenly bodies Message-ID: <796@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 09:46:36 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.796 Posted: Mon Jun 11 09:46:36 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jun-84 23:58:36 EDT References: <99@tekigm.UUCP>, <7975@watmath.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 11 [] OK, OK, imagine a rope securely fastened to the center of the face of the moon facing earth. Extend that rope to one foot off the surface of the earth. IF the moon rotates, the rope will be wound up on the moon's surface. However, since it does Not rotate, the rope will remain one foot off the surface of the earth. Think about it. It is no different than many of our satellites which present the same face to the earth at all times. T. C. Wheeler