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Originally Posted by adman
How can an object spin on an axis that is outside of itself?? Surely that is just called an orbit?
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I was being a bit cheeky with my answer
The OP asked if the moon spins on
it's axis, which it doesn't, it of course orbits the earth and is tidally locked, which is why I said it spins on an axis inside the earths crust (which is another way of saying a tidally locked orbit)
