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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: heavenly bodies (lunar rotation)
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 00:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 00:00:00 1984
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And I had the impression that net readers had a slightly higher
level of education than average!

	"The moon has no tangential velocity wrt its surface"

(I hope this is a joke, Mr. Wheeler)

For those of you who sill aren't sure.  Say you look to your right and
you see me looking at you.  Now I move around to your left, so that I
am still looking at you.  Clearly I have rotated 180 degrees because
I am now facing in the reverse direction.

From the moon, the stars circle the sky once every ~28 days.  (as
does the sun, as even we can see from the Earth watching the light-dark
line change)   Just how does this miracle occur.  No doubt the few
of you in the dark ages claim that the sun and stars must go around
the moon!

I assume you will now tell me the Earth doesn't spin because communications
satellites stay in the same place all the time, and we always present
the same face to them!

And how odd it is that by giving the moon some spin we would cause the
stars to stop in the lunar sky!

Remember heliocentrists, the moon does NOT orbit the Earth, they both
orbit each other.  There is nothing special about the viewpoint here.
As I once heard it put, the Earth is a satellite in the Lunarsynchronous
orbit (although that's a bit too far).

-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304