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The revolution of the Moon around the Earth, and with the Earth around the Sun, are not the only motions performed by our satellites. As has been realized in the earliest days of lunar observations from the fact that the Moon exhibit to us on Earth (almost) always the same face, it must also rotate with a uniform angular velocity about an axis fixed in space and inclined but little to its orbital plane.
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Kopal, Z. (1966). Rotation of the Moon; Optical Librations. In: An Introduction to the Study of the Moon. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7545-6_3
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