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It is given that the angular size of the Sun as viewed from Earth is $0.533^\circ$, the distance of the Moon from Earth at perigee is $3.633\times 10^5$ km, and the mean radius of the Moon is $1737.1$ km.

Suppose that the perigee of the Moon is receding from Earth at a uniform rate of $4$ cm/year. Estimate how long it will take to reach "final totality" (i.e. when we can no longer observe total solar eclipse on Earth).

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I'm going to migrate this question to the physics.SE site. There will be a link that appears below the question here that you can follow to the new location of your question. If you need help associating your account to one on physics.SE, you can flag your question for moderator attention, and someone over there will help out. – Zev Chonoles Nov 28 '11 at 5:09
The initial question is really a math question (after I looked up what "perigee" is). – Jonas Meyer Nov 28 '11 at 5:11
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Physics.se it seems, more and more is wieved as a dump for silly/elementary/nonsense questions from other branches. This questiion is math, obviously, but math.se expelles such elementary questions. So, why not "sending" back? – Georg Nov 28 '11 at 11:13
You say that as if math isn't dumped on either, buddy... ;) – user172 Nov 28 '11 at 12:47
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migrated from math.stackexchange.com Nov 28 '11 at 5:09

closed as not a real question by David Zaslavsky♦ Nov 28 '11 at 5:23

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