Thread:Comments:Scientists say the moon is slowly shrinking/Comments from feedback form - "So it may be shrinking. Its ma..."/reply

Actually, I would think that the moon's mass is slowly increasing due to precipitation of interstellar dust and metoeroids, etc. With shrinkage and increased mass the net result should be a very gradual increase in density, hence a gradual increase in gravitation. One would expect that the earth and the moon are moving closer together, but the accepted view is that they are moving apart (or that the moon is moving gradually away from the earth).