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Our Moon Could Become a Planet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the size-does-matter dept.

anthemaniac writes "Earth's moon is drifting away from us more than an inch every year. In a few billion years, if the system survives, the moon would be reclassified as a planet under the new IAU definition. You gotta wonder if the astronomers who dreamed this definition up had thought of that."

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  1. Re:So what? by Flibz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mmmmmmm..... boogers

  2. Re:So what? by Flibz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think you were looking for the other topic.

    <point>The one over there</point>

  3. Huh? What!? Oh, a few BILLION years. Well... by The_REAL_DZA · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    At first I thought TFA said a few million years and I started getting worried, then I reread it and now I'm ok. Whew, that was a close one!

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