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Tidal forces between the Earth and its Moon in fact result in the Moon (very slowly) getting further and further away from the earth.
by jlgreco 13y ago
Tidal forces between the Earth and its Moon in fact result in the Moon (very slowly) getting further and further away from the earth.
- jacquesm 13y agoYep. The actual experimental verification of this makes for very interesting reading. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment and lots of links referenced from there. Amazing precision, I still find it quite incredible that such a distance could be reliably measured to such precision and that meaningful conclusions could be drawn from those measurements.