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Moon Puts On Its Best Show of the Year Tonight
Jan 29th 2010 – 4:51PM
AP
(Jan. 29) – Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the...
Background on orbit of the moon
The Moon completes its orbit around the Earth in approximately 27.3 days (a sidereal month). The Earth and Moon orbit about their barycentre (common centre of mass), which lies about km from Earth's centre (about three quarters of the Earth's radius).
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