The orrery is of brass construction and the planets and their moons rotate within it.
About once a day the moon rotates about the earth, attracting as it travels the bulge of water called the high tide that also travels round the earth.
Well, our moon does not rotate; it keeps the same face toward gamma Globulo all the time.
The moon rotates in synchrony with its orbit around the earth, causing the dark side to be forever invisible from the earth.
For a while as the moon rotated he had seen nothing but ocean, sunlit for a few kilometers then abruptly plunged in darkness.
Since the moon does not rotate fast enough, there is no effective lunar-stationary orbit, but the Lagrangian points could be used.
The Earth's moon is almost two thousand miles in diameter and does not rotate with respect to Earth.
An orbiting moon rarely rotated on its own axis, but this was one of them.
In this view, the earth, moon and the planets rotate around the sun, which does not move.
The black shapes seemed to rise slowly, higher as the moon rotated, and then to begin sinking.