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j4k3 , in How is the moon tidally locked?
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To really blow your mind, the Moon is slowly moving away, but will never escape. Eventually both the Earth and the Moon will become tidally locked to each other at which point the Moon will no longer move further away. This assumes no outside influences and enough time.

jasparagus , in How is the moon tidally locked?

Here’s a good explainer:

What is tidal locking? phys.org/news/2015-11-tidal.html

Basically, the moon acted like a spinning (unbalanced) wheel, and eventually stopped with the “heavy” side pointing “down” towards Earth. I.e. think of the moon as orbiting Earth with the heavy side staying pointed at Earth.

Poiar , in what is your favourite fact?

I don’t know if this counts, considering the community’s name, but here goes:

In the Philippines, there exists:

  • an island
  • in a lake
  • on an island
  • in a lake
  • on an island

and I, for some reason, think this is amazingly interesting :)

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