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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
The simplest way to imagine it is that the moon's vertical motion relative to earth is cancelled out by its horizontal motion.
The moon is, in fact, spiraling away from the Earth at a rate of ~3 inches per year, if I remember correctly.
Originally Posted by OngBonga
(caveat - I think)
Well said, man.
You even covered Newtonian orbital model and Einstein orbital model.
You know that the reason things are "hard" is due to electromagnetism.
You mentioned conservation of energy principles, too.
My one correction is trivial and pedantic.
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