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RE: Pull of the Moon
I have a question. I read sometime back that the moon has been slowly moving
further out of orbit and that during the Mesozoic it was actually something
like a quarter closer to Earth (but don't quote me on that). I was
interested in this from an artistic view (should we make the moon larger in
our Mesozoic skies?) but was also curious to the effects a closer moon would
have had on Earth - would the gravitational pull have been stronger,
affecting tides more radically in the likes of the Tethys Ocean and
Cretaceous Inland Seaway?
Steve