THE VIDEO SHELF · moon orbit
The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD
A minutephysics explainer showing that the Moon's path around the Sun is not a spiral but closer to a 12-sided polygon with curved corners. It argues the Moon arguably orbits the Sun rather than the Earth.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN links it whenever the Moon's orbit comes up, as a concise explanation of why the Moon always curves toward the Sun.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- minutephysics
- Topic
- moon orbit
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2024–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Minutephysics did a video about this: [VIDEO] It looks like a dodecagon with rounded corners, but the video goes into more details.
GuB-42 on Hacker News · 2024-12
In MoonIt’s arguable that even the stuff we consider to orbit the earth like the moon is really orbiting the sun. MinutePhysics did a great video on this: [VIDEO]
d1sxeyes on Hacker News · 2025-01
In IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like StarThis video explains what you’re talking about re the moons orbit always curving toward the sun, and also mentions Earths gravitational dominance. It’s about the suns gravitational pull on the moon dominating over the Earths gravitational pull on the moon, but that due to the …
nandomrumber on Hacker News · 2026-04
In Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth
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