clipka wrote:
> "somebody" <x### [at] ycom> wrote:
>> Bah! Of course moon exists, and of course it's made of green cheese. The
>> real riddle is, does it rotate around its own axis?
> 
> Depends on whether it actually rotates around the earth ;)

It actually doesn't. It rotates around the sun.  If you actually do the 
math, you find that the attraction of the sun on the moon when it's on the 
sunwards side of the earth is stronger than the attraction of the earth on 
the moon.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    back to version 1.0."
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