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One thing which isn't clear (from the animations at least) is how moon revolves around sun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#/media/Fil...

When looked from distance, it looks more like revolving around sun while getting effected by earth. Which is to say, th motion does not look like a spring/spiral at all, but like a wave instead.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/266426/what-does...



Minutephysics did a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBcxuM-qXec

It looks like a dodecagon with rounded corners, but the video goes into more details.




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