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To: AntiGuv

It will probably still be there then but Luna may well have left the solar system.

It's getting farther and farther away, isn't it?


125 posted on 03/04/2005 9:58:50 PM PST by djf
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To: djf

At its current rate of retreat, the moon will be only another 60,115 miles further from the earth in 2,539,265,412 years. I could be wrong, but I doubt that this will be enough to let it break out of the earth's gravitation. Even if it were, it would certainly not leave the solar system altogether barring a major disruption by an extra-solar body (e.g., another star passing through).


132 posted on 03/04/2005 10:32:38 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: djf

Opps! Make that about 2,537,526,189 years in the future - I forgot to account for leap days. They add up...


134 posted on 03/04/2005 10:38:49 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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