How did the Moon end up with an orbit the perfect distance to cause total eclipses?
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The moon’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular, sometimes it’s too far away to cause a total eclipse, which is what happened for the most recent eclipse.
Now, because of tidal forces, some of the rotational energy of the Earth is getting transferred to the moon, slowly pushing it to a higher orbit. So eventually it won’t have total eclipses anymore.
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