Is it true that the moon is moving away from the earth,an if so what does that mean for the earth?
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Yes, the moon is moving away at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This was discovered by lunar laser ranging. Don't worry though, it's practically nothing.
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i don't think so... yah it's true that when a big meteorit hit the earth o pretty big piece was separated and the scientists think the moon is that part, but i think the moon has completely different structure that ours
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On perigee, the moon is closest to the earth. On apogee, it is its farthest from earth. This happens every month, so don't worry if you missed it. I found a good site you can go to:
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i would generally say no its not, as the atmosphere is only between 5 adn 10 miles high, the moon is considerably further away than this.\n\ncant explainy why its like this has something to do with the creation of the solar system the mood being far away and such.
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We wouldn't know how fast the moon is moving away from Earth.
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There is something to this.  The net angular momentum of the Earth-Moon system is such that it is fairly stable to the small torques introduced by other planets.  For instance, the orientation of Mars' rotational axis is believed to have changed dramatically over time.  This is shown with numerical models. \n\nThe moon is moving farther away from the earth.  Angular momentum  is transfered by tides.  The tidal bulge of the Earth remains oriented towards the moon.  The earth rotates under this bulge and drags it forward a bit. The gravity of the bulge itself then pulls the moon ahead in its orbit some.  The net effect is the earth's rotation slows, and moon moves to a slightly larger orbit.\n\nAt some point, the Moon's orbital period will be the same length as the Earth's rotational period and the Earth and moon will be tidally locked to one another. \n\nRegardless, the entire system will still have a lot of angular momentum and the Earth will be fairly immune to significant changes to the obliquity of its rotation.
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No.\n\nThe distance between the Moon and the Sun is always changing.  Sometimes the Moon is between the Earth & the Sun, and sometimes it is on the other side of the Earth from the Sun.\n\nAll because the Moon is orbiting the Earth.
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The moon will not escape Earth orbit. It is currently moving away from us at only 38 mm/year, due to energy transferred by tidal forces. The energy transfer is also causing Earth's day to become longer (currently it is increasing by 15 microseconds each year).\n\nTheoretically, the moon's orbit would increase until the Earth's day slows to match the Moon's orbital period. After this point, solar tides will dominate and the Moon will start moving closer to Earth.\n\nBefore this happens, the Sun will become a red giant (5 billion years from now).
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Ah, well, first of all, the moon hits hydrogen atoms in space, and thus slows down from its orbit aound the sun, and thus slowly moves off from its current orbit, and since the sun's Fg is larger than the Earth's, we can say bug off to Earth's Fg on the moon. \n\nOn the other hand, the slight changes in the moon's orbit around the sun does have some changes, like a slightly lower high tide. Still, it does not compare to 300 years of industrial revolution damage the humans has done.
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Yes, and not only does it affect the land, it also affects everything else comprised of atoms, which is everything-Including You!!\nDepending on which side of the earth you are on, or which side you are closest to. If you are on the moon side then  you actually wiegh less because the earth and moon are both pulling on you, but in opposite directions, thus the moon diminishes the earths gravittional pull on you if even only by a tiny amount. If you are on the side opposite the moon, then the earth and moon have a combined pull, resulting in a stronger gravitational pull on you. \nAll mass has this same affect on all other mass, however it is more evident when there are large masses involved, such as the moon.\n\nHappy full moon.
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The moon is in orbit around the earth. duh! but to answer your question you have to think that as the moon orbits it is orbiting the center of the planet. The earth turns also but it is quite unaffected by the moon, the two have nothing to do with each other. As you might know the earth is tilted some 23 degress from it's orbit around the sun. This tilting gives us our seasons. During winter the earth is tilted away from the sun and because of this sun sits low in the sky ( northern lattitudes of course). In the summer it is the opposite. Anyway the moon also has a tilt to it compared to earth's tilt. As it goes around and round we see it in different parts of it's seasons. Of course the moon takes only 28 days to go through it's year so not much is happening, but it explains why the moon seems to move. One more thing the moon rises in the east. Perhaps you meant the moon seems to rise more north or south- it does both
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The moon is geologically inert. It is believed that the last lunar volcano erupted several million years ago (perhaps more than a billion years ago though there is some debate). There would be NO effect on the earth whatsoever as lunar volcanism was less energetic it is unlikely that anything spewed out would escape lunar gravity and reach Earth.\n\nOn the other hand, asteroid IMPACTS on the moon CAN be energetic enough to throw debris towards the Earth, and some meteorites found on the Earth are believed to be of lunar origin.
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googled to find this:\n\n"The Moon, at first, will recede further and further from the Earth, but the two bodies will continue to orbit about their common centre of gravity. Around 600,000,000 years from now, the Moon will be too far away for total eclipses to occur.\n\nHowever, this process won't continue indefinitely - as Mike Sawicki points out in his Myths About Tides and Gravity:\n\nOnce the Earth becomes tidally locked with the Moon, the solar tides will tend to slow the Earth’s rotation even more, so the day will be longer than the month and the Moon will rise in the West and set in the East. The water spheroid generated by the Sun will cause the high tide to appear earlier than the time of highest moon ... Then the tidal force of Earth on the Moon will pull the Moon into a lower orbit and eventually inside the Roche limit (18500 km), whereupon the Moon will disintegrate producing a ring round the Earth."\n\nWhatever happens, we won't be around to know!
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Distance to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n An Astronomy Tid-Bit about the mean and extreme distances to the Moon\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n     \n   Note:  Distance is from center to center of orbiting bodies.\n             Kilometers divided by 1.6093 = miles.       \n\n      Many sources, such as beginning astronomy textbooks, yearbooks, and atlases, give the distance to the moon as 384,400 kilometers (km), and  0.055 as the flattening or eccentricity of the moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth.\n\n      The moon travels around Earth in an elliptical orbit, with the Earth at one of the two focuses (foci) of the ellipse.  As a result the distance to the moon varies by quite large amounts.  Its close (or perigee) distance is 384,400 x (1- 0.055) = 363,258 km.  Its far (or apogee) distance is 384,400 x (1+0.055) = 405,542 km.  BUT these values turn out to be the mean or average values.  See the table below for actual distances.\n\n      The actual (computed) distances over 10 centuries, from  1500 to 2500, have been calculated by the Belgian astronomer, Jean Meeus, to be as small as 356,371 km or as large as 406,720 km./1 These values differ from the MEAN values by 6,887 km and 1,178 km respectively\n\n      An excellent and easy-to-use source for the moon's position and distance is "Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac" produced by the US Naval Observatory, Wash. DC and published by Willman-Bell, Inc., PO box 35025, Richmond, VA  232235.  The program called "MICA15" is on one CDRom for both IBM and MAC systems.  Included with the disk is an information and instruction book.\n\n      I used MICA15 to scan moon distances for the one  year, 2000, shown in TABLE 1.  The same source was used for the ten-year period, 1995 to 2005.  For this ten years,  the smallest distance (356,613.970 km) between Earth and Moon for this period occurred on November 4, 1998.  The largest occurred on March 14, 2002 when the moon was 406,706.975 km away.
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Yes, the moon is a natural satellite of Earth.
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No one knows why the earth's center is hot. However, it is conjectured that tidal friction, heat from fission (radioactive decay), latent heat of formation and even the release of gravitational potential energy as heat, or possibly chemical processes might be reponsible for the heat, or at least some of it. \n\nOf course, eventually the radioactivity will decay away and that heat will cease. If the moon moves farther away as it is doing the tidal heating will lessen from the moon (but not the sun). The latent heat will dissipate. The chemical processes will probably eventually stop, and any gravitational potential energy release will end. \n\nSo it will probably cool down quite a bit eventually, except for tidal heating from the sun. This might take a long long time. \n\nHowever, it should be remembered that we do not really know what provides geothermal heating.
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It would take something very huge to alter the moons position..chances are that something that huge would destroy earth as well..but ..for now...the moon ..is getting further away from us.. at a rate of approx. 4 inches ..a year.