Just hit me now, and maybe I'm way past my bedtime, but I always thought the rotation creates the gravity on planets. But the moon does not spin/turn. So how does the astronauts stay on the moon (if they were ever there)?
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This phenomenon is called orbital resonance and occurs with other moons in our system, although our moon has the only 1:1 resonance.
Frequencies like to synchronize