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Warp wrote:
> Ah, I found the exact term you are talking about:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere
Kewl! So if the moon gets close to taking 7 months instead of 1, we could
be in trouble. :-)
I had read in a reliable source that the moon is actually more attracted to
the Sun than the Earth when it's at eclipse, but I never did the math
myself, and I'm too lazy to look at the math here to see if that's
sufficient to disrupt the orbit anyway. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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