The moon is slowly migrating away from the earth into higher orbits (due to the earth spinning faster than the Moon’s orbit), eventually it could escape with a gravity assist from Mars or Venus. It’ll have tidal consequences for Earth, but not like catastrophic (though I suspect it might allow the earth’s core to cool a bit faster, which could be the beginning of the end of life on earth).
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LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoI’d find it hard to believe anything could happen that would cause the moon to be thrown out of it’s orbit enough to end up on the far side of the sun, but leave earth unaffected.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But how many millions of years is that?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It is lots of them.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Why would impact the core?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Friction heat from tidal forces.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Maybe once we start trying to settle it, it’ll look at Earth and say “nope”
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999
Been there, done that.