The Primal and Future Moon


	The Primal and Future Moon

Moonowler

3-19-2008 12:43 AM

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stars, earth, moon, gravity, galaxy, prehistory, solar, water, science, maps

Moonowler says:

Although the Moon is slowing down Earth's rotation, it has stabilized it as well from movement of the Earth's poles.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eb5b8078-2393-43a5-ac50-9449ce787bd9/7DE8F9FF-1C98-4C00-8CA8-8FE8DD1533BD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html" href="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html" style="font-size: 11px;">starryskies.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/starryskies.com/img/1D6FC305-0F27-4ACF-8570-55BE8BAE1B5D" alt="Beauty of the Moon" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html">Every year, the Moon moves about four centimeters (about 1.6 inches,) farther 
out into space, away from Earth. Right now, the Moon's rotation rate, and the 
time it takes to orbit Earth are the same.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html">Four and a half billion years ago the Earth was about sixty percent formed, 
though it did have a differentiated core, crust and mantle. In these primal 
skies, there was no Moon.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html">One planet, about the size of Mars, probably had an orbit which crosses Earth's, 
and eventually a collision occurred. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/starryskies.com/img/A685F9C4-417B-4453-B8BF-35C23F2160A8" alt="Dark side of the moon" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html"><P>The debris around Earth began to condense into clumps and quite rapidly, a blink in cosmic time, formed a large glowing ball: our primal Moon. The Moon would have looked about ten times larger than it does today, and the Earth was changed forever. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://starryskies.com/articles/2007/10/primal-future-moon.html">Earth's gravity has caused the Moon to become tidally locked us as well as 
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