the fact right now is really true. the moon is getting further and further off Earth. if the moon hasn't exist, Egypt would snow annualy, because the Earth rotational axis depends on the moon. i'm not lying. mars is really unstable if you didn't know
2007-09-07 21:40:18 · 5 answers · asked by Billy A 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It's very true that the rotational axis of the Earth would 'wobble' a lot more than it does if it weren't for the huge amount of gyroscopic moment that gets coupled into it from the Moons orbital rotation.
As to what that (and the fact that the Moon is receding at about an inch per year) will mean to us in a few million years....... Who knows?
Doug
2007-09-07 21:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of one inch per year, not enough to worry about for the time the human species has left to exist.
2007-09-11 17:07:53 · answer #2 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would happen after some thousands of years, at least from now. yeah that would probably happen. nobody even knows what happened before the theoretical big bang so who knows, it could've all been a cycle.
2007-09-08 09:54:11 · answer #3 · answered by rui_parker17 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dun worry, apocalypse will come before that...
Ha ha unless this is even more alarming news.
2007-09-08 05:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by lynxmcromance 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what ever you do don't panic
2007-09-08 04:49:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋