Illustration of moon's orbit

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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2024 13:37:32 CEST AkaSci 🛰️

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   One last tidbit of info - the Moon is receding away from earth by about 3.8 cm each year due to tidal interactions (the rate decreases with time). It has been receding from the day it was born, when it was 10x closer.

   So, over time, total solar eclipse duration will get shorter and the probability of total eclipses will decrease.

   In the distant future, about 0.62 - 1.2 billion years from now, there will be no total solar eclipses, just annular and partial ones.

   https://eos.org/features/the-end-of-the-eclipse
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