Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 ggr 02/21/84; site desoto.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!desoto!benw From: benw@desoto.UUCP (B Weber) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia Subject: Re: heavenly bodies Message-ID: <519@desoto.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 13:47:26 EDT Article-I.D.: desoto.519 Posted: Fri Jun 8 13:47:26 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 08:09:55 EDT References: <99@tekigm.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway Lines: 8 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