This article is about the farewell of a moon that has accompanied our planet ( the Earth) for a very long, long, long time; and that will do so for a lot of time from now to the future. The moon is getting away 3.8 cm per year, and making our days longer by 0.0008 seconds a century. This is happening because "The gravitational force of the Moon "pulls" on Earth's oceans and crust, creating the twice-daily tides. Likewise, Earth's gravity pulls on the Moon, distorting our companion so that it is slightly egg-shaped. These tidal effects produce bulges on the Moon's surface, and Earth pulls on these bulges a little more than on the surrounding regions because of the concentration of mass there. Earth's constant pull on the Moon's tidal bulge caused its rotation to slow down from its much faster initial spin rate to its current rate of 27.3 days".
It was amazing to me because the moon is a planet that I always watch every night; I imagine that suddenly one night I don't see the moon any longer see the moon. I also imagine the beach without waves, or never watching a eclipse.
I can make connections, for example; The waves are important to our world. Solar eclipses are beautiful, and without moon there cannot be any eclipse. I can happily say that I live in a very lucky time.
