dids wrote:the Moon has an influence on Earth's rotation, as I've read there: http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html
Also seen that in a documentary called Superscience, in the episode about the Moon
That makes more sense. The cause/effect relationship is the other way around, though: the Earth is accelerating the Moon through tidal drag, resulting in days increasing in length by 15 microseconds a year from the Earth's consequent loss of momentum. The Moon's increasing distance is a result of the momentum it it getting from this.
That's a great astronomy book online you've found. I wonder if there is a good one in printed form.
