The lunar diameter won’t decrease, only the apparent diameter. A better formulation would be that the moon is receding.
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An object doesn’t necessarily decrease in its physical size as it recedes from an observer. Unless maybe if it is a party balloon.
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I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS
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So the moon is throwing shade as it leaves us.
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They shrink?
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Actually, solar eclipses will not go away. Total solar eclipses will, but not for a very long time.
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The moon is receding from earth, making its angular diameter, not its physical size and mass, smaller.
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It's getting 'smaller' because it's moving further away from Earth.
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Test this guy for drugs I'm tired of him please
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So in the past, eclipses that occerred were larger in area as the moon was closer. very cool.
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So the moon was bitten by a Zika mosquito?
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Clickbait 101
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Further away by an inch plus per year
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So fascinating.
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First pluto and now the Moon? Damn it Neil.
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