Butllet t1_ja0by5b wrote
Is there a point where our gravity does not affect it anymore? I wonder how long till it hits that point...
AirborneRodent t1_ja0if6q wrote
No. The reason it's happening is that Earth's rotation is faster than the Moon's orbit - a day is shorter than a month.
Because of this, the Moon is leeching kinetic energy from Earth's rotation to orbit faster (drifting further away is simply a consequence of orbiting faster). This speeds up the Moon's orbit at the cost of slowing the Earth's rotation. Over time this energy-leeching will stabilize once the Moon has sped up so much, and the Earth has slowed down so much, that the Moon's orbit and the Earth's rotation will take the exact same amount of time - a day will be equal to a month - and the Moon will appear motionless in the sky. This is called tidal locking.
But as other comments have stated, this process will take so long that the Sun will kill us all long before it finishes.
IAmNotAnAlcoholic t1_ja1ofz2 wrote
We are already tidal locked with the moon….
AirborneRodent t1_ja1zxqb wrote
The Moon is already tidally locked to Earth. Earth is not (yet) tidally locked to the Moon.
airbus29 t1_ja0c8r1 wrote
no because before that happens the sun will die and engulf the inner planets
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