Originally from ticket #4585.
As you enter different time periods the distance of the moon does not increase, studies show Moon is moving away from the Earth correct?
Would assume local objects like the Moon would show at least the calculated new distance from Earth.
Just a curious point...
The distance to the moon varies greatly in SN. Just do a "Show Info" on the moon, look at "Distance from observer" and change the time.
The variance I think you are talking about is an effect that is related to the tides, causing the moon to recede from Earth by about 3cm every year.
Since we only report the distance to the moon to within 100m, you would have to be varying the time by about 3000 years to notice that the max or minimum distance between the earth and the moon wasn't changing by one digit.
This "tidal" effect (and many others) actually IS taken into account in SN, and accounts for e.g. some of the change in Delta-T as well.
