Lunar orbit

Okay kiddo, let's talk about the moon and its orbit! The moon is a big rock that is always moving around the Earth. When it moves around the Earth, it goes in a big circle and it does this all the time. That is called an orbit - it's like a special path the moon follows.

The moon's orbit around the Earth is actually not a perfect circle, it's a little bit squished. Sometimes the moon is closer to the Earth, and sometimes it is farther away. This makes the moon appear bigger or smaller to us here on Earth.

The moon takes about 28 days to complete one orbit around the Earth. This means that it takes 28 days for the moon to go all the way around the Earth and end up back where it started.

But did you know that the moon also has something called a "synchronous rotation"? That means that the same side of the moon always faces the Earth. So no matter where the moon is in its orbit, we always see the same side of it from here on Earth.

Overall, the moon's orbit around the Earth is pretty cool, and it affects a lot of things like the tides and even some animals!