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Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
@callanish: You're correct. The astronauts left a few small mirrors there, they are to this day used for measuring the earth-moon distance _exactly_ (down to a centimeter or better), you can actually measure that the moon is slowly moving away from earth.
Whoa! Sounds like Space 1999! The story premise being that a mishap causes the moon to leave Earth orbit and go off into space with everyone who colonized on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WZW4groJro