[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, good guess. Geez, tidal transfer of momentum has been going on since orbit started. :') Bodies in prograde motion around the parent body also slow on their axis, because they are transferring momentum to the parent body, but the parent body is (obviously) larger and the satellites move out. Bodies in retrograde gradually migrate inward and kerplunk.

[SunkenCiv]

The Moon stopped turning on its axis because it has been transferring momentum to the Earth and is a mere 1 per cent of Earth's mass. Meanwhile the two bodies have been moving away from one another as a consequence of this momentum transfer.

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[stboz]

Anybody able to calculate the inverse-square loss of insolation due to the movement away from the Sun?

Global cooling is comin' for ya!

[SunkenCiv]

This is pertinent to the list, because there are jumbo planets orbiting their stars at distances less than that of Mercury. Unless they are recent captures, they must have been burped out of their parent stars at some point in the past.

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[NonValueAdded]

Sounds like that Global Warming thing would come in pretty handy in a millennium or two.

[Red_Devil 232]

Well when you have something in the center, that every thing in a system is revolving around, and that something is burning and spewing its mass consistently into space I would guess it loses a little mass. Consequences.

[muir_redwoods]

As the sun shines, it is losing mass by the conversion of hydrogen to helium and the resultant radiation of energy which is equal to some amount of mass according to the most well know formula in history.

As the sun loses mass it seems reasonable that a body orbiting it would move in a larger orbit.

But what do I know?

[ETL]

I wonder if coronal mass ejections (CMEs) effect the movement of the Sun at all? Newton’s Law: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

[mikrofon]

So in approx. 5 Billion years when the Sun expands as a red giant, we’ll be about 100,000 miles further away from it — probably still close enough to get roasted...

[JoeProBono]

[TheBattman]

How long until the “experts” begin claiming this all is also “human-caused”... and the solution is to eliminate all Christians from the planet...

Ok - that last part was meant as a bit of sarcasm... But seriously - humans WILL eventually get the blame for this. Just watch.

[phatus maximus]

Duh, it’s man made Global Warming and the planet is moving toward cooler space, just like warm air rushes to cool air...EVERYONE knows this is the consensus and there is no more discussion on the matter.

[razorback-bert]

We are all going to die.

[stayathomemom]

Entropy?

[Jabba the Nutt]

The End is Near! At least getting nearer at 15cm.

[theymakemesick]

Solar wind blowing Earth away.... /rimshot

[a fool in paradise]

SUVs, incandescent lights, and cattle farts.

[smokingfrog]

Yes, but what about the Lense–Thirring effect?

[D Rider]

The other theory is that the speed of light is slowing down, (therefore it looks as if the earth is moving away from the sun.)Also h is increasing. It appears that hc is constant not c. It has been known for a while that the relationship between orbital time and atomic time is not constant.

[BIGLOOK]

So Global Warming has another scientific data obstacle looming. Solar minimum, prograde motion, CO2 seasonal decline in the northern hemisphere, record low tides in the N. Pacific and Blue Whales off Long Island.

And I thought the fur growing on my ass was due to aging....

[staytrue]

Inside of geosync orbit, the orbit decays, outside and the object moves farther away.