The moon wasent always so close
Posted: 18.07.2003, 03:04
by Star Lion
The moon dosent get closer when you revurs time, and it dosent get farther away when you fast forward time.
Is this not added yet, or is this a bug that only I hav?
Posted: 18.07.2003, 04:21
by chris
This is not a bug . . .
The orbit of the Moon can be projected accurately no more than a few thousand years into the past or future. No attempt is made to simulate orbits over timescales of millions of years, because there's simply not enough information. We know very roughly the rate at which Moon's semi-major axis is increasing, but I don't think there's enough information to justify incorporating this into the simulation.
--Chris