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What is the 28.5 day moon period?

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Answer:

There really isn't one.

-- The moon completes one orbital revolution around the earth, and
one spin on its own axis, in 27.32 days.

-- Seen from the earth, the moon displays one complete cycle of phases
in 29.53 days.

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