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The moon moves in an ellipse around the earth itself moving in space, in the same common direction from west to east, which is characteristic of all known planetary bodies of the solar system, with the exception of the Uranus satellites, and likewise many comets.
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Schmidt, J.F.J. (2020). Orbital Period of the Moon. In: The Moon. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37269-9_1
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