Does the Moon standstill ?

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Did you know that the Moon does not move for three days at some point in its Orbit ? For Three Days the Moon does not move , for three days . Why ?
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You are way off topic, and wrong as well. Maybe start a new thread if you need an education.
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Is there a point in the Moons Orbit that the Moon does not move , at all .
 
origin said:
This seems to be too stupid of an idea for even you
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I'm not so sure. This was the person who thought a single hydrogen atom could be in the liquid state and could be encased in plastic in order to study it at leisure.
 
river said:
Is there a point in the Moons Orbit that the Moon does not move , at all .
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Out of curiosity - simply to see where such a strange idea, that would defy the known laws of physics, springs from... what source have you seen that suggests this?
 
Theoretically, a satellite (moon) orbiting a parent body (earth) might at some point in its orbit move in exactly the opposite direction (and at "reverse speed", so to speak) as the parent body's motion about a senior parental body (sun). Just thought I would point that out.
So can the moon be momentarily motionless within the frame of reference of the solar system? That is a question which resides within the realm of sanity!
Now, someone else explain why not . . .
 
River Ape said:
Theoretically, a satellite (moon) orbiting a parent body (earth) might at some point in its orbit move in exactly the opposite direction (and at "reverse speed", so to speak) as the parent body's motion about a senior parental body (sun). Just thought I would point that out.
So can the moon be momentarily motionless within the frame of reference of the solar system? That is a question which resides within the realm of sanity!
Now, someone else explain why not . . .
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It is theoretically possible, but that wasn't the question that was asked. Earth's moon is never stationary relative to the Sun, or relative to the Earth.
 
Sarkus said:
Out of curiosity - simply to see where such a strange idea, that would defy the known laws of physics, springs from... what source have you seen that suggests this?
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Maybe River is referring to ''Lunar standstill'' which is an apparent effect seen on the celestial sphere.
Lunar Standstill.
Origin of name
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The term lunar standstill was apparently first used by archeologist Alexander Thom in his 1971 book Megalithic Lunar Observatories. The term solstice, which derives from the Latin solstitium: sol- (sun) + -stitium (a stoppage), describes the similar extremes in the Sun's varying declination. Neither the Sun nor the Moon stands still, obviously; what stops, momentarily, is the change in declination. The word tropic, as in Tropic of Capricorn, comes from ancient Greek meaning "to turn", referring to how ascending (or descending) motion turns to descending (or ascending) motion at the solstice.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_standstill#Apparent_position_of_the_Moon_during_standstill
 
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