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The Moon moves around the Earth at an average distance of 384,403 km (238,857 mi), and at an average speed of 3,700 km/hr (about 2,300 mph). It completes one revolution in an elliptical orbit about the Earth in 27 days, 7 hr, 43 min, 11.5 sec according to sidereal time (that is, by reference to the stars). For the Moon to go from one phase to the next similar phase, a period known as one lunar month, requires 29 days, 12 hr, 44 min, 2.8 sec. The Moon rotates on its axis once in the same period as its sidereal period of revolution, accounting for the fact that the same face of the Moon is always turned towards the Earth. Although the Moon appears bright to the eye, it reflects into space only 7 per cent of the light that falls on it. This reflectivity, or albedo, of 0.07 is similar to that of coal dust.
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