2007-07-01 05:13:06 · 21 answers · asked by Patrick B 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Further. I believe by 1.5 millimeters a year. I heard when the moon was created it was 14,000 miles away from the Earth. Now it is almost 250,000 miles.
2007-07-01 05:16:21 · answer #1 · answered by goldengoose 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As many others have pronounced, the moon is shifting greater far flung from the earth. As area of this technique, the earth's days are steadily (VERY steadily) getting slower. Given adequate time, the tip effect of this technique is that throughout the time of approximately 15 billion years, the Earth might substitute into tidally locked to the moon: the moon's orbit would be synchronized with the size of earth's days, so the moon will consistently be over a similar spot in earth's sky. even if, this would possibly not actual ensue, because of the fact the sunlight could have stepped forward right into a pink substantial famous guy or woman and incinerated the two Earth and Moon long till now that.
2016-10-03 08:32:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is. The moon is moving about 3.8 cm farther away from the Earth every year. This occurs because of tidal interactions. The moon's gravitational force pulls on the Earth making it bulge at the face of the Earth the moon is facing. These are called "tidal bulges". The tidal bulges would affect the force of gravity on the moon, as the bulge would have a greater gravitational pull on the moon than the center of the Earth. And since the Earth rotates faster than the moon orbits, the tidal bulges would move ahead of the moon and pull the moon towards the tidal bulge causing the moon to speed up and move ahead in its orbit.
the APOLLO LLR program hopes to pin the moon distance down to the millimeter but they are having to take into account the effect of gravity on the photons as they travel from earth to the moon and back so they only have been able to narrow it down to a half an inch
2007-07-01 06:38:02 · answer #3 · answered by Kimball K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes the moon is moving furthur away from earth. According to the law of gravitation, it is revolving a bit further away from earth but that distance is so less that it can be neglected for many years from now.
2007-07-01 05:51:13 · answer #4 · answered by pps_pranav 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Moon is moving very slowly away. Something like 1 cm a year or a century or something.
2007-07-01 23:54:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Farther, by only by a matter of centimeters each year. Apollo 11 left a reflector on the lunar surface that astronomers bounce a laser off of. This method allows for extremely precise measurements of the Earth-Moon distance.
2007-07-01 07:51:59 · answer #6 · answered by clitt1234 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Moon is moving very slowly away. Something like 1 cm a year or a century or something.
2007-07-01 05:16:42 · answer #7 · answered by eri 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sometimes the moon looks 10 times bigger than usual, and sometimes it is almost non existent. i think it is cool to view the moon at different times during the month, just to see how it sits, and what it looks like. i'm not really sure if it is moving anywhere, but around the earth. or does the earth move around the moon?? and what about the moon coming out, during the day rather than at night, when it is supposed to come out?? haha
2007-07-01 06:04:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's moving away from the earth.
2007-07-01 05:20:12 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is moving away from Earth by a couple of inches per year.
2007-07-04 03:44:53 · answer #10 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋