The moon rotates once per revolution around the Earth, but that’s not a coincidence. Somehow the rotation and revolution are connected to each other. Some force is keeping them the same. How exactly does that work?
The moon rotates once per revolution around the Earth, but that’s not a coincidence. Somehow the rotation and revolution are connected to each other. Some force is keeping them the same. How exactly does that work?
Pretty much everything in the primordial solar system orbited in the same direction and the same plane, and that motion is conserved to this day, for the most part. The moon would have had to have been captured for its rotational energy to be that different from that of earth’s.