The moving is making the difference with the Earth, which influences the rotation of our planet and slowing it, because of which our days are becoming longer each year by 1/75,000 seconds. Moon is now 45,000 Km far from Earth that it was 1.4B years before.

This can be good news for the fella, who always has the complaint that the day is not long enough to handle everything. As per the fresh evaluation, a day on Earth was 5 hours and 15 minutes shorter a billion years before compare to ours’ time, a lot before the complex life started on the planet.

Researchers utilized a combination of geochemical signatures and astronomical theory conserved in the ancient rocks to show that the Earth was completing its full revolution is just 18 hours and 41 minutes, 1.4B years ago.

The number shows that on Earth, the duration of a day has increased by around one of 74 thousandths of a second every year since the time of Precambrian era, and expected to grow in the same manner for at least millions of years, if not billions like it was earlier.

As the rotation of Earth is going on slow and slow, the distance between Earth and lunar surface is increasing. In relation to this, Meyers says, “We were excited about rebuilding the Milankovitch cycles as it offers an effective tool for understanding and estimating our planet as well as the history of the solar system. The cycles are like the signposts which allow us to browse through the history.”

If we talk considering the Moon’s effect, it will not hide from Earth forever. However, in the duration of 1.4bn years, it has moved around 45,000 Kms from Earth. It is believed that at some time in the future, it will attain a spot which is going to be the stable distance, and it is going to be visible to only half of the world at a time, and will not be visible for the other half.