Assuming you mean this animation:
SVS: Flying Around The Eclipse Shadow
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Originally Posted by Jerome
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Originally Posted by Crumb
Maybe you should look that up.
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I did, NASA provides animations with the moon flying around the earth with great speed (it takes 27 days according to the current model), or they have animations with the earth spinning the wrong way! As if the sun rises in the west and sets in the east!! |
Twit, it's not showing the Earth rotating the wrong way, it's the "camera" changing its angle, which is why the sun and the moon also "move".
At about 10 seconds in, the camera stops moving, and the rotation of the Earth can be seen... moving in the correct direction.
The shadow moves from west to east because the moon is moving in that direction as part of its orbit.
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Originally Posted by Jerome
Uh, if the moon is moving that fast it wouldn't take the moon 27 days to rotate around the earth, it would take 11 hours.
See, to explain it you have to speed up the moon well beyond the speed described in the spinning globe model.
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the Moon doesn't move along the Earth's surface, twit. The length of its orbit (the circumference, so to speak) is much, much larger than the circumference of the Earth.
You can't possibly be serious with this idiocy.