how many times does the moon circle the sun each year?
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the moon doesnt circle the sun the moon circles the earth the earth circles the sun
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The number of days in a year is about 365.25, but is closer to 265.242..., so leap years are less often than every four years.
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light years are billions of miles long, the moon is only ~250,000 miles from the earth\n\ntry taking how many miles light travels in 1 second 186,000 miles, multiply that by 31,557,600 and you get your answer\n\nhint, there are 365.25 days in a year, that is how we get a leap year every 4 years.\n\ncheers - corey
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The path of the apparent motion of the sun is called ecliptic.\n\nThe lunar orbit is at angle of 5 degree 8 minutes to the ecliptic.\n\nThe two points of intersection of the lunar orbit and ecliptic are called the nodes.\n\nThe sun comes to the same node every 346.6 days.\n\nHence it is clear that the sun goes to north and south directions  with respect to the moon also.
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Lunar calendars measure the time it takes for the moon to revolve around the earth (28 day cycles).  Solar calendars measure the time it takes for the earth to go around the sun (365 day cycles--aka years).  \n\nLunar New Year, then, is determined by finding counting the cycles from the last New Year.  That's why Lunar New Year is always on a different day (of the "regular" calendar).
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It takes the earth approximately 365.25 days to orbit around the sun. A normal year is 365 days, then they add an extra day every four years when those four quarter days add up. However,they do not add the day on certain years, because it is just under a quarter of a day extra per year. So 2000 was NOT a leap year, for example.\n\nWe get "leap seconds"occasionally, too. It's all just trying to keep our artificial calendars in sync with the earth's orbit around the sun.
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Yes.\nThe moon rotates at the same speed as it revolves. So, by the time it covers some distance in revolution, it has moved about the same in rotation. Easy to understand with a diagram.
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one revolution of the earth around the sun
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It is because you are trying to make a round peg fit into a square hole.\n\n7 x 4 = 28 x 13 lunar months = 364 days, \nbut there are 365 days in a regular year. \nThen in order to fit into the Earth's rotation around the Sun every 4th year we have to add an extra day.\nPlus occasionally we have Leap seconds too.\nConfused?
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must be thousands, as strictly all satellites that have been launched and are still up there go round the sun by virtue of the fact that the earth and all other planets go round the sun
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You mean the moon and the sun, which is true\nsometimes, but there are also eclipses where\nthe moon is smaller than the sun, so a small\nring of light is left uncovered (called an annular\neclipse)...\n\nBy a stroke of amazing coincidence, both the\nmoon and the sun are approx 108 times as\nfar from the earth as their diameter, so they\nappear the same size in the sky... 108 is a\nmystic number in spirituality, so I doubt if this\nis really a coincidence!
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SAROS\nThe saros is the roughly 18-year periodic cycle of the Earth-Moon-Sun system. Every 6,585 days, the Earth, Moon and Sun are in exactly the same position. When there is a lunar eclipse, there will also be one exactly 6,585 days later.
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There are 2 astronomical cycles involved here.\n\nThere's a 19 year cycle, where moon, sun-earth are in same relative positions all year long.\nThere exists an eclipse cycle here but not like the saros cycle, below.\n\nThe other is the "saros" cycle, (the eclipse cycle), which is 18 years, 11 days 12 hours, 3 and 1/3 seconds.\n\nThese are astronomical absolutes--you can depend on them.\n\nI can't decipher your dates above, but after 62 years as an amateur astronomer, I can assure you that my figures above are correct...\n\nI appreciate your interest in these cycles--you are one in about 10,000, (maybe in 100,000) that can even pose such a question.
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Lunar eclipse happen more frequently than solar.(earth has a larger shadow then the moon.)
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Path of the Moon\n\n1-Circle on the celestial sphere \n2-Circle rotates W with period of 18.6 years \n3-Moon occupies a band ?5o of ecliptic \n4-Daily path just like a star that rises in the same place
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this is an answer to a slightly different question (how long does the moon take to make one rotation?): 27 days, 7 hours, and 43.2 minutes.  someone must remember that the moon revolves around the earth (earth-moon center of mass) at the same time that it rotates.
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lunar eclipses take place only during full moon, and if the moon passes through a part of the earth's shadow.\n\nsince we have a full moon at least once every 29.5 days, one does wonder why we don't have a lunar eclipse every month. \n\nfact is, the moon orbits arond the earth at five degrees to the earth's orbit around the sun. this means that the moon is either above or below the plane of the earth's orbit. this plane (of earth's orbit around the sun) is important because this is where earth's shadows lie. during full moon, the moon passes above or below earth's shadows, therefore we don't get a lunar eclipse. in a year, though, the moon gets to pass twice up to 4 times through part of the earth's shadows -- which causes a partial or total lunar eclipse.