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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > I'm not a physicist, but I still think you have got some errors in your
> > thinking.
> Quite possibly. But look at it this way: Say the altitude of the moon over
> the earth was 1000x what it is now, and the moon was orbiting appropriately
> slower? What if the outside of the moon's orbit was close to where Venus is?
> Certainly there would be different dynamics. Hence, in the limit, there's
> obviously some point where the influence of the sun overwhelms the influence
> of the earth. I don't know where that point is, mind, or whether it would
> occur before or after the planets were tidally locked 100%.
This sounds a lot like the three-body problem... :P
Anyways, as I said, the recession of the Moon is, AFAIK, decelerating,
and it's quite slow to begin with, so I think the Earth is not going to
lose the Moon ever (unless some external forces come into play to disturb
the whole thing).
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- Warp
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