19+ Moon Orbit Around Earth Gif. I will go ahead and state that this is a difficult thing to show. The moon has a nearly circular orbit (e=0.05) which is it takes the moon 27.322 days to go around the earth once.
Moon, earth's sole natural satellite and nearest celestial body. The moon has an orbital eccentricity of 0.0549, so its path around the earth is not perfectly circular and the distance between the earth and the moon will but its orbit can be said, in an oversimplified manner, to be periodic, with no significant apsidal precession (not really true, but somewhat irrelevant. Earth's moon may have formed when an object the size of mars crashed into the planet.
It makes a complete orbit of the earth every 27.3 days.
Note start date should have been 18th november 2000 ! It is in a synchronous rotation with the earth. The moon is constantly traveling around the earth. Note start date should have been 18th november 2000 !