[Q&A] Rings Around the Earth, Iron Planets, Asteroid Mining Race
Universe Today Podcast
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Why the Moon Is Floating Away and Not Going to Crash Back Down
The Earth's moon is moving away from us at about one centimeter per year. Greg Rumschite: Why is the moon drifting away when Phobos is moving closer? And the answer is the orbital time of the moon compared to the rotation time of the planet. He says it might be that a large percentage of the stars out there that we would think explode as traditional supernova are just Disappearing into black holes with no intervening step.
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