# The Moon getting farther away from Earth?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-getting-farther-away-from-earth/175737>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 16, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-getting-farther-away-from-earth/175737 "2003-05-16T18:27:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbird3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@jbird3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jbird3000)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-getting-farther-away-from-earth/175737/21 "2003-05-19T05:23:45Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Baldwin \*  
> **What Clarke novel was that? None of this stuff about the Moon is new information, really, and if Arthur Clarke had the Moon crashing into the Earth, he must have figured a way for it to make sense.**

The Time Machine. Haven’t read it, saw the movie.

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**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-getting-farther-away-from-earth/175737/22 "2003-05-19T05:51:22Z")

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Hmm I wonder if TheBadAstronomer will do a vanity search and find this thread

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**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-moon-getting-farther-away-from-earth/175737/23 "2003-05-19T07:29:45Z")

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Arthur Clarke wrote The Time Machine?  
What a multi talented bloke he is.

strangely enough I can’t think of a real book, as opposed to film, in which the moon did impact the Earth spontaneously except R.C.Sherriff’s The Cataclysm…  
and that is pretty obscure nowadays.

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