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4.1 Introduction. The Moon revolves around Earth in an elliptical orbit with a mean eccentricity of 0.0549. Thus, the Moon's center-to-center distance from Earth varies with mean values of 363,396 km at perigee to 405,504 km at apogee.t illustrates the Moon's orbit around Earth and Earth's orbit around the Sun. The relative sizes and distances of the Sun, Moon, and Earth as well as the eccentricity of the Moon's orbit are all exaggerated for clarity. The major axis of the Moon's orbit marks the positions of perigee and apogee.
The moon has distanced itself (receded) from Earth in this way, by hundreds of thousands of kilometers, in its long association with Earth. It is calculated that the current orbit of the moon increases in diameter by about 3.8 cm (about 1 1/2 inches) every year as a result of this effect. Over millions and billions of years this has added up. The moon is currently moving away from the earth about 3 to 4 times faster than in the past. The spacing of the major oceans and continents allows for a more powerful effect than earlier. But it will not continue this way indefinitely.