Tag: full moon

The moon circles the Earth and it takes him around 27.321661 days. In the mean time the Earth is on its course around the Sun. Therefore the Moon needs to catch up with the Earth. Luckily for her, gravity plays its role and she does not have a choice. It takes her a little longer to catch up withe Earth and return to the position it was around the new moon. This takes 29.5305882 days. The Sun is also moving and thus the Earth and Moon need to hurry after him, but that is not part of this article.