Is the moon moving closer or further away from the earth. If so when would it either hit or depart from earth?

Answer 1

Yes, the moon is moving away...but I also heard that the moon will eventually escape the earths gravity, and this time they don't know when, nor do they know the actual consequences of the eath being moonless...

Answer 2

As many others have noted, the moon is moving further away from the earth. As part of this process, the earth's days are gradually (VERY gradually) getting slower.

Given enough time, the end result of this process is that in about 15 billion years, the Earth would become tidally locked to the moon: the moon's orbit will be synchronized with the length of earth's days, so the moon will always be over the same spot in earth's sky. However, this won't actually happen, since the sun will have evolved into a red giant star and incinerated both Earth and Moon long before that.

Answer 3

The moon is moving slowly away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year. When it first formed as the result of a massive impact on Earth of a Mars-sized body, the moon was only about 24,000 miles away; it's been receding ever since. In several billion years the moon will stop moving away and assume a more or less static distance from Earth.

Answer 4

It is moving away from the earth. To prove when it will actually completly depart from orbiting earth will take some intense physics equations almost definetly being computed by a machine to determine the constant changes taking place as it travels farther away. Interestingly enough as the moon travels farther away, the earths speed of rotation will also be changing-I have old physics notes that have a value for which the moons seperation is currently happening-ill try to dig up-

Answer 5

Q.a million The gravitational effect of the Moon orbiting the Earth on an identical time as the Earth is rotating is inflicting the Earth's rotation to decelerate (with the aid of tidal consequences). This power ought to bypass someplace so it is going into pulling on the Moon's orbit with the result to extend the area to the Earth. it particularly is a conservation of power. Q.2 particular, for an identical reason as Q.a million (the solar rotates besides and it particularly is slowing). besides, the solar is dropping mass because it fuses hydrogen which additionally will strengthen all photograph voltaic device orbits. Q.3 not something to do with it.

Answer 6

since the so called "BIG BANG" the earth has been slowly moving away from the earth. The earth's gravity keeps the moon from flying away but it has been proven that every year the moon is moving further away. Yes it is in orbit but t at the same time moving away from the earth

Answer 7

the moon is in fact moving away from the earth. It hit a couple million years ago and has been moving away ever since. When it was closer it caused the earth to spin faster and the days were about 6 hours long, now thay are slightly over 24 hours. i dont know when it will "move away" if ever, but ive heard some scientist theorize that when it gets to a certain point away from us our gravity will pull it back in again, however, personally, i belive the moon to be too vast in size to be suced back in if it is already traveling at speed "x" away from us.

Answer 8

According to the modern scientists, the Moon is drifting away from the Earth. In the future there won't be any solar eclipse or lunar eclipse because the moon is going away from the earth each year, but it will take millions of years for that to take effect.

Answer 9

Around a 100 billion years ago the Earth and the Moon did collide, and the Moon has been pulling away from the earth ever since. Theory is that if the moon moves more the a mile further from the Earth than what it already is, then life as we know it will not exist any more. It is supposed to happen, if that Texas size meteor doesn't wipe life out first. When will it happen, well we will probably have already killed ourselves off first or became dominant space explorers. Warp 9 Scotty!

Answer 10

The moon did not hit us a few million years ago nor 100 billion years ago, where do you people get your data?

"Computer models suggest the Moon formed after an object the size of Mars (just over half the diameter of Earth) crashed into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. Debris from the impact formed a disc around Earth that eventually coalesced to become the Moon."
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn8550--mild-collision-spawned-earths-moon.html