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Old 01-05-2012, 01:40 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Just like how the moon makes a full rotation during it's orbit of earth. It's rotating and orbiting such that the same side is always facing inward, so in the earth-moon perspective there are no rotations. From outside, though, you can see that there is one full rotation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation
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