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Thank you. Just popping in. I said many times the semantics were screwing things up, the the egos here refused to work with me as I worked with them in their lack of understanding of which items we were talking of. (The "We" by the way, referred to the conversation in total, back-and forth between us all, that is.)
And as Wikipedia said, the "laymen" include astronomers, who use "rotation, spin, orientation, orbit and revolution" interchangeably for different real motions, which require specifications in addition to these words, just like me.
Quoting: mclarek 980219No, Clare, that is NOT what it said. If you think so, please point us to those references. Nancy was saying too, that there is no motion of spin on the Moon other than the forward motion, which is locked onto the Earth by gravity pulling it in.
Quoting: mclarek 980219Wrong again. Nothing is "locked" by gravity. Both bodies are free to rotate on their own. It's just that over eons the tidal forces raised in the moon have slowed its rotation to match the period of its orbit. The term "tidal locking" is a description of that synchronization, but does not, in fact, mean that either body is "locked" to the other. Libration is a clear demonstration of that.
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