moon rotation

[Kaliliaomake]

the moon is face locked to the earth

[mlaiuk]

Never belive, Never A Straight Answer AKA (NASA, AKA NAZI Party). History, Science and Phyisics is wrong and we have been pumped with bullsh*t. Always give a thumbs down to NASA.

[aPpLeJuIcE37RainLucy]

@mlaiuk Good idea! Thumbs down! Also never trust the hospitals or any of the treatments they give you. It's all wrong! And don't even think about getting into a plane, or even worse a boat! Physics is all wrong!

[mlaiuk]

If you look at this link and look at the two moon eyes, you will see that it also go around in a clock face motion to. google.co.uk/search?q=moon+pic­tures&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla­:en-GB:official&client=firefox­-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isc­h&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Bas­1T8PWJMi68gP0tfG5Ag&biw=1280&b­ih=593&sei=Cqs1T6PyGIXU8gOn57H­IAg how is that to happen. I was always told at school just the above video.

[jesperstraussjensen]

The dark side of the moon.

[jesperstraussjensen]

Just a sattelite. The material of the moon could easely being used by "aliens". Who says a sattelite shall be made of metal, carbon or whatever? So when you look at the moon, think about that someone could be looking back.

[CfFial]

who feels sick when they realize how fast we spin? xD

[jesperstraussjensen]

@CfFial Good question.

[LivingDedMan]

Just how did it end up being so perfect that we can only see the one side? Seriously, the universe never ceases to amaze.

[1978atcarroll]

@LivingDedMan It's tidally locked.

[deesyphrr]

Damn facts getting in the way of our notions!

[WoodstockHiker]

She got great lips for a BJ.

[YvetteBurns1957]

lived in australia still saw the same side lol

[YvetteBurns1957]

if we only see one side of the moon what about people living on the other side of our planet?

[kikokazuma]

So I just watched this video and.......

The moon still ain't spinning....

[jspenco2]

i call shennigans on this

[jspenco2]

if i have a ball with a string through it and i spin in a circle the ball would act the same as the moon the side with the string exiting out of it would always point at me but the ball would only seem to be rotating from a different viewing point sorry i just do not buy this i think the idea is flawed.

[Hosehead46]

@jspenco2

The string is rotating and therefore, so is the ball.

[SoLiDSt33L]

Thanks for this.

[dAVipfRee4ALi]

cool video

[TheJoeBoxxxer]

The Earth wouldn't be fixed in the same spot of the moon's sky all the time. Don't forget about lunar libration, the slight rocking of the moon from north-to-south and from east-to-west during it's orbit around Earth. In fact, the Earth would move in an oval pattern in the moon's sky.

[DivineSource444]

No matter where you are on this planet, the same side of the moon is always visible. So if the moon rotated, there should be somewhere on the earth where you would be able to see the other side of the moon, which you don't.

[axoll]

@ :37 seconds you can see the moon is not rotating, BUSTED!

[mekrez26000]

هل صحيح أننا نرى واحدا من وجوه القمر؟ وإذا كان هذا صحيحا، فلابد له أن يدور عموديا

اEst-il vrai que l'on voit une des faces de la lune?

Si cela est vrai, il doit être tourné verticalement,

[RmanDC]

This crap almost got to my brain thought the firewalls...

Chist that was close!

[soURfunnyYOUthink]

u spin me right round baby right round

[Cleatusbodean]

i did not know that

[liquidus2172]

NASA = Never A Straight Answer

[topper4125]

@liquidus2172 I always thought it was NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts

[liquidus2172]

@topper4125 you mean Astronots !!!

[brianrss]

nice vid ... the moon orbits the earth exactly like a satellite.

i laerned simtin :D

[brianrss]

@brianrss did someone say an artificial satellite!?

[Risulfur]

I still can't convince my grandfather that moon rotates around the earth q,q

[R0B0stairs]

@Risulfur LOLOCAUST!!

[sebastiansz]

@VaccinesKillBabies I work at building 8 and I do it all the time... today I brushed out a giant UFO with an alien in the window. cool job

[shadtek]

We never see the dark side of the moon because the moon is pear shaped and gravity does not allow it. think about it.

[canuck7777777]

Lol, I think this model is false! I've been thinking about why we never see the dark side of the moon for a long time and have a new more plausible theory! Lets just say that this model makes sense because it's what we observe when we plot an orbit on a 2D surface. We live in 3D space, so what's really happening is different! I'm going to post a video one day with my model for planetary orbits.

[ajjjju84]

nice....

[chopinplaya]

(cont) . However, when the moon is on the bright half of the earth, how do people see the moon at night (because the moon shouldn't be in their field of vision, the earth gets in the way)?

[finlarg]

@chopinplaya There is an overlap. Apart from new moon (when the moon is between us and the sun) we see the moon both day and night, for about 12 hours, provided it's not cloudy. For the other 12 hours the earth DOES get in the way, hence we don't see it then.

[chopinplaya]

In the animation, the moon rotates around the earth slower than the earth rotates in a day. If you divide the earth into the bright half and the dark half (two hemispheres), you can observe that the moon is on the bright half for part of it's rotation about the earth and on the dark half during the rest of its rotation. When the moon is on the dark half, that means people can see the moon at night because night time correlates to the dark half of the earth...

[astrotter]

Nicely done...this is a tricky concept to explain to students. Two suggestions: 1) show with arrows indicating the direction of one face of the moon for longer and from more vantage points, including as seen from the earth; and 2) "the moon is in a type of synchronous orbit" -- you just lost a lot of viewers. But I like the "think about it" puzzle at the end -- why would the earth always be in the same place in the sky? That gets at the heart of it. I hope viewers do think about it!

[MrSalsaparrilla]

THAAAAAAAAAAAAANKS :)