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Old 11-06-2009, 11:29 AM
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It sounds reasonable since I know that the moon is moving further from the Earth and that at some time in the future we will no longer have total solar eclipses.

In fact if you take the present rate of retreat and extrapolate backwards it can be shown that 65 million years ago the moon was only 5m from the surface of the Earth. That would explain the extinction of the dinosaurs - well the tall ones at least.
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