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The moon is shrinking

1 year 6 months ago
Today I learned that the moon is getting smaller: The moon’s shrinking has been measurable, but small. It has contracted about 150 feet in diameter over the last few hundred million years. Small indeed! That comes to about a quarter of a millimeter every 10,000 years. At that rate, by the time the sun turns ...continue reading "The moon is shrinking"
Kevin Drum