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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.
The time it takes the Earth to rotate once is called a day (24 hours). The actual rotation time is a little less, about 23 hours and 56 minutes. But the solar day is long â¦ er, almost exactly 24 hours, because of the distance the Earth moves in its orbit around the Sun. The Earth has to turn that extra 4 minutes to again directly face the Sun.