On: Wikipedia to the Moon

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The Moon itself certainly is gradually moving away from Earth (and slowing down Earth's rotation in the process)

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Indeed. That's one of those science nuggets I love telling people because it's universally accessible and blows everybody away. Suddenly makes galactic timescales and gravitation real for people.

(Or they're just being nice to me...)