...meaning our moon might have shrunk 100 meters in diameter in relatively recent geologic time.
“Recent” means a different thing to geologists than to everyone else, and in this case it has taken a billion years for the moon to shrink in diameter just 0.003 percent.
Hence, you and I won't miss a thing: Why scientists think the moon is shrinking
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