Scientific question(s)

[dtewi]

hatmoza said:

dtewi said:

Well, they're technically astronomy, but whatever.

1) If the moon is constantly orbiting the Earth, why is it that we only see it regularly during nighttime?

2) If there were a planet oribiting the sun and was equidistant from the sun as Earth, how would we know if that planet existed?

Very random questions out of the blue. Just want a couple answers that don't include highly-confusing science mumbo-jumbo.

You can still see it in the day, It's just not that bright because the suns light it's too powerful. At night we see the moon because its reflectling the suns light and thats why we only see parts of the moon sometimes because only part of the moon is facing the sun. But it's not always possitioned opposite of where you live on earth. According to the lunar calender you see it 15 days of every 30 days (ie on  one half side of the earth orbit).

I don't get the second question.

The second question means if a Planet X was on the other side of the sun, how would we know it existed?