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The Moon's Orbit and Rotation. It takes the Moon 27.322 days to go around the Earth once. Because of this motion, the Moon appears to move about 13 against the stars each day, or about one-half degree per hour.
Tweet. It actually takes the Earth 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.06 seconds to make one rotation on its axis, not 24 hours. This is called a sidereal day, and is the amount of time that it takes the Earth to make a full rotation on its axis and end up in the same position relative to the stars.