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TIL the Moon "wobbles" during its orbit, showing us a little more than half of the moon's surface from Earth. Since its orbit is not perfectly circular, the Moon changes its speed in orbit, and so the ratio between the rate of its Earth orbit compared to its rotation on its own axis varies.

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