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Moon's rotation


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Originally posted by: Tormod

Yes, it does rotate. The rotation of the moon is "tidal locked",

It might help to add that this means that just as the mass of the moon causes the tides here on Earth, the mass of Earth causes a bulge in the Moon which is attracked to the Earth, thus locking that side (the bulge being more mass) towards Earth.

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