Scientists say that the Moon is slowly drifting away from the Earth, and it may have had massive impacts on how our planet evolved.
Every year, the Moon drifts further away from the Earth. According to a post on, the Moon drifts away from our planet at a rate of 3.8 centimeters a year. At that rate, in 100 years, the Moon will have drifted roughly 380 centimeters from our planet, a total of around 12 feet.
The Moon’s origins are still a mystery, though, and while we have created simulations that we believe to be true, nobody was there to see the event occur, so it’s hard to say for sure. But, based on the current rate of recession, and the timeline for how the Moon formed, it’s hard to believe that the Moon has been drifting away from the Earth at that same rate. This raises other questions, of course.
That information was used to calculate the distance the Moon was drifting from the Earth around 2.46 billion years ago.
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