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Old 25-10-2007, 06:02 PM
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and every time it moves out those few centimeteres each year, NASA or the Russians or someone else lands something on it and it nudges it back a few centimeteres again

But yes, Chris is right. The orbital velocity is throwing it out as it is being drawn in by gravity. Same as us around the sun.
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