2006-11-27 09:46:03 · 8 answers · asked by camarodude005 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No it is moving away at 3.8 cm per year
2006-11-27 09:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel M 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It leaves at around the pace that our fingernails grow. About an inch a year. Since we landed on the moon in '69' our moon drifted over two feet away from us. Our planet is spinning slightly faster than it was millions of years ago because the moon is moving slowly away and influencing the planet less. Since we have been involved in exact time keeping (cesium seconds, Greenwich) for less than a hundred years, there might be a need to remove a second or two a day within a few hundred years to compensate for a slightly faster rotation. There is no need to fear anything though, our moon will always be around.
2006-11-27 18:13:40 · answer #2 · answered by entropy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to bust you bubble...but the moon is actually moving farther away from the earth at an ever increasing amount (even though that amount is ever so small at this time). It is believed that the moon was once a part of this planet we call Earth and was blasted away from it in the early part of its development from astral collisions. The attraction of gravity has kept the moon from leaving our orbit, but the movement of the moon through space over time has allowed it to move further and further away from the Earth (once it reaches escape velocity it will leave us and move into a solar orbit of its own).
2006-11-27 17:58:40 · answer #3 · answered by IBAWhistoname 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes the moon is moving closer to the earth by 1200 miles per hour,and will smash into the earth,and kill us all withen the next 5 years. Repent now! Or if you're not religous then have sex with as many people as possible because we are all gonna die when the moon smashes into the earth.
2006-11-27 17:50:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Daniel M is right on.
We know it is moving away at this very slow pace because we can take measurements of the distance using lasers and reflectors placed on the surface of the moon.
2006-11-27 17:58:34 · answer #5 · answered by Telesto 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's moving farther away. About 4 m per century.
2006-11-27 18:16:54 · answer #6 · answered by Philo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity. The moon is in a constant freefall while orbiting.
2006-11-27 17:48:34 · answer #7 · answered by Athos 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is moving further away, and slowly. But it doesn't move through space. Space is expanding between matter.
2006-11-27 18:48:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋