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Answer:

28 day orbit around Earth.

Explanation:

This is called the Lunar phase. The lunar phase or phase of the Moon is the shape of the directly sunlit portion of the Moon as viewed from Earth.

The moon's orbital period is 27.3 days whereas the phases complete a cycle once every 29.5 days. This is because of the rotation earth around the Sun.

What are the different phases of the Moon caused by?

The Moon phases are generated by the association of the Moon and the Sun in the sky. The small part of the Moon always points the way to the Sun. The lunar phase is the amount of the Moon we can see from Earth depending on how much of it is set alight up by the sun.

These eight phases of moon are

  1. new Moon
  2. waxing crescent
  3. first quarter
  4. waxing gibbous
  5. full Moon
  6. waning gibbous
  7. third quarter
  8. waning crescent.

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