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- Damon LyonLv 71 year agoFavorite Answer
It's actually orbiting a bit slower than the Earth is rotating, so you will notice that it rises and sets.
- nineteenthlyLv 71 year ago
Earth spins at around 1000 mph at the equator. It orbits the Sun at roughly the speed you mention. And the answer is that the body you mention rises and sets like the Sun but at a slightly different rate because she orbits us.
- busterwasmycatLv 71 year ago
It doesn't "stay" in place. You can see it move when it is very near to the horizon, actually. Can't really see it move so much as see that it has moved after a couple minutes or even less. Just seems slow because it is so far away.
Also, the earth does not move that fast even at the equator. closer to 1000 mph. Takes 24 hours to do a full circle at the equator of about 25000 miles, so a bit more than 1000 mph.
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- Ronald 7Lv 71 year ago
Wrong !!
The Velocity of Earth's Spin at the Equator is 1, 000 mph
The Moon's Orbital Speed is actually the same
This Orbit is not always aligned with Earth's equator and its orbit is eccentric
It does move across our Sky by about 10 degrees per ten minutes
You can Photograph it and mark the position then find out that ten minutes later it has changed position
Source(s): A Flat Earth Eclipse - CliveLv 71 year ago
The Earth does NOT spin that fast. Check your facts. And the Moon does not stay in place, as you would know if you watched it over a period of time. Even after 10 minutes it has visibly moved, and if you watch all night around Full Moon you will see it rise, cross the sky and set. AND STOP SHOUTING!
- ANDYLv 51 year ago
The Earth's rotation speed at the equator is 1,000 mph and not 60,000 as you wrote. We "see" the moon going from east to west only because of the Earth's rotation (or spin, if you will). And the moon at the same time is going from west to east owing to its orbit around our planet. So as you see, there are two movements involved here: one is an optical illusion, and the other is real.
If you remain watching the moon for, say, an hour, you will notice that it IS shifting to the west (illusion). And this is due to the Earth's rotation as you mentioned in your question. I repeat, Earth is going much slower around its axis than what you wrote and that's the reason it seems to be staying in the same place if you just take a glimpse if it.
- jeffdanielkLv 41 year ago
The moon doesn't stay in place. Throughout the night, it seems to rise, move across the sky, and set.
- Anonymous1 year ago
The 60000 mph figure is how fast Earth orbits the Sun. The Moon is attracted so strongly to the Earth it can't but help but be pulled along, and if it wasn't flying at better than half a mile per second itself it would crash into the Earth in short order. And it only looks like it's standing still because it's a quarter million miles away.