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by shamim jagot on November 22nd, 2004

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Why can you sometimes see the moon during the day? Doesn't it only come out at night?

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  • by Jeremiah Britt on December 1st, 2004

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    You can see the moon during the day for the same reason which gives the moon it's phases.
    While the earth rotates from day to night and back again in 24 hours, the moon takes 27 days to completely orbit the earth. Even though the moon has one of the lowest reflectivities of any body in the solar system, there are only two days when the moon is invisible or nearly so during the day, when the moon is full and when it is new.
    (The new moon has no reflected light visible from earth and the full moon is opposite the sun with the earth in the middle (If you can see the sun, you can't see the moon.))
    In order to beter understand, get a basketball, a softball and a lamp. As you move the softball moon around the basketball earth in relation to the lamp sun, you'll be able to see all the phases and also that the moon is visible during the relative day.

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