> On 29-6-2012 5:05, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> Thomas de Groot<tho### [at] degrootorg>  wrote:
>>> ... days a
>>> bit longer than today by a couple of hours.
>>
>> Weren't they a bit shorter, with the Earth spinning faster back then?
>
> Ouch!!! Of course! My bad. I wonder what I was thinking.... ;-)
>
> Thomas

And the lost of angular momentum from the Earth got transfered to the 
Moon, pushing it on a whider orbit.

Alain

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