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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.
Take those 4 minutes a day, each day for a year, and it adds up to one extra day, or spin. It takes the earth roughly 24 hours to spin on its axis. 24 hours It takes 3minutes 56seconds less than 24hours for the Earth to spin (rotate) once on it's axis.It takes 365.2422days for the Earth to revolve once around the Sun.he period of this actual rotation is approximately 25.6 days at the equator and 33.5 days at the poles. However, due to our constantly changing vantage point from the Earth as it orbits the Sun, the apparent rotation of the star at its equator is about 28 days.