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BoIshevik t1_j5obutc wrote

Earth and the moon are tidally locked aren't they? Interesting answers here and I actually had some keywords to use too lol thank you.

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seeriktus t1_j5oced4 wrote

The moon is tidally locked so it always faces the earth, but the earth doesn't always face the moon. It rotates unequally to how the moon orbits. There is also drift between the number of orbits and the ultimate position the moon ends up in a year. One month is roughly equal to a lunar month, but not exactly.

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