Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 01, 2010

Come back, Moon! Don’t leave us!

When it gets too far away, the tide will turn against us.

Now if we could only get a few billion aholes to drift away too. Much much faster…

Moons will come and moons will go Some real fast others real slow But I think what will be the pressing issue Is what on earth will all the werewolves do?

Given how well we’re doing with the Earth, if I were the Moon I’d be inching away too …

Ralph, correct Alice’s trajectory.

Yes, rayannina. Moon saw this this coming miles away!

Are moons orbiting other planets (except Venus and Mercury) doing this also?

As I understand it, the martian moons are in decaying orbits.

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Quick,somebody harpoon it!!

Luna doesn’t orbit Earth, it orbits the Sun. It’s just that their orbits are intertwined so that it LOOKS like the Moon orbits the Earth.

Back to B&W. Someone wake up the monkey and tell him to fix it.

Charlie Brown and Linus did this joke years ago. Nice tribute!

Nebulous, the moon orbits both the suna and the moon and technucally, they all orbit the center of the Milky Way. Josh, that’s a good question….I wonder how far our moon would have to drift before Venus steals it from us….

Looks like Rickard is floating in space.

Very nice wndrwrthg!

If it separates from earth completely, I wonder if it will bother waxing any longer…

Waxing? Are you kidding, it doesn’t even do windows.

Goodbye Moon, it’s been nice to know ya.

Good eye, Brewster.

Ha ha, that made me chuckle Mac.

I was thinking, “Naw, it’ll just let the hair grow willy-nilly.”

So, one of my favorite TV shows is still futuristic after all; they just need to change the title to Space: 19,999.

The prediction is, the moon will go out a certain distance until the day and month on earth are equal, and then the moon will start spiraling inward until it breaks up into a ring. The process is supposed to take, oh, about two billion years overall.

Since there is a center of gravity within the earth (barycenter, if memory serves) for the earth-moon system, the moon does revolve around the earth as a satellite. But from another perspective, the orbits of the two around the sun are indeed entangled. It’s all a question of the frame of reference…and now of definition, since the IAU now insists that to be called a double planet, the barycenter has to be between the two bodies and not within one of them.

Thank you Digital Frog.

DF, or will it be singing in the wane?

The further away it gets, the less tidal effect affects it.

Extrapolating backwards, how close was it in the beginning?