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. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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