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Subject: Why isn't earth's moon farther away?

Date: Tue May 15 15:18:29 2001
Posted by Jeremy
Grade level: 10-12 School: WLCS
City: wasilla State/Province: alaska Country: USA
Area of science: Astronomy
ID: 989954309.As
Message:

The moon is slowly moving away from the earth. This means the further you go 
back in time the closer the moon was to the earth. If the earth and moon are 
the same age, and are billions of years old, wouldn't the tides be so high that 
everyone and everything would drowned?


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