Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Earth's Moon Destined to Disintegrate

The important thing to know is that it is likely to happen several billion years from now.

The Sun is midway through its stable hydrogen burning phase known as the main sequence. But when the Sun enters the red giant phase in around 5 billion years things are going to get a lot rougher in the Earth-Moon system.

Read more about this on Yahoo! News.

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