How did the Moon end up with an orbit the perfect distance to cause total eclipses?

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How did the Moon end up with an orbit the perfect distance to cause total eclipses?

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Short answer: it didn’t. The Moon’s orbit is not stable and in fact oftentimes you won’t have a perfect match. Also the Moon is actually on an orbit that will take it farther and farther away from the Earth, until one day (many Millions of years from now), it will only be a speck on the Sun when it passes in front of it.

It just so happens that we live in a time where the Moon just has the right distance *most of the time* to fit the visible diameter of the Sun. There is no law of nature that this *has* to be the case. Consider yourself lucky that you can experience this.

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