Re: Moon Tides

[Bernard Cleyet <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Oh,

Thanks  --  a conflation from forty years ago.

bc



John Mallinckrodt wrote:

> On Thu, 10 May 2001, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> > I understand that this "solid" tide's energy absorption  is great enuff, so
> > that the resulting moon's recession (from the earth) will result in no total
> > eclispes soon.
>
> It isn't "solid tide energy absorption" that increases the
> radius of the moon's orbit.  It is the tidal interaction with the
> Earth and the resulting transfer of Earth's spin angular momentum
> into orbital angular momentum.
>
> John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
> Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm