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Astronomers working with NASA have discovered that the moon's orbit has degraded sharply and is slowly loosing orbit. The discovery was first made by Jeff Harrington at American Lunar Institute and was subsequently confirmed by scientist in England and Australia.

Though Harrington said there is no explanation as to why the moon's orbit is degrading, based on calculation, the moon will impact earth in about 30 years.

Geologist Marek Zbik, of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, has discovered nano particles in dirt from the moon's surface, something not present in dirt on earth.

Zbik used a synchrotron-based nano tomograph to study dirt samples from the moon, which makes a 3-D image of the particles being studied, and found that trapped inside molecular sized glass bubbles were nano particles. Until now, scientist did not have the ability to see particles this small, therefore had no idea these nano partices existed.

The moon rose over Orlando on May 5th, reaching its perigee, or closest approach to earth, this evening and spectators were out in force at Lake Eola.

The during the moon's perigee, it was also a full moon, an astronomical illusion made the moon appear larger than it really is. It began to rise at 7:55pm over the east-southeast horizon as a bright orange disk before rising fulling as a granite shining crater pot-marked celestial satellite of earth.

We counted about 25 other photographers around Lake Eola's northwest coast in downtown Orlando.

Los Angeles, CA -

The Cassini satellite is set to make its lowest pass yet over the Saturn moon Enceladus and its southern pole, which many scientist believe may hold liquid water. Cassini will pass just 46 miles from the surface of Enceladus which will allow it to fly through the expected water jets coming from the seismically active moon.

Scientist at NASA's JPL believe the lines coming from the souther pole of the moon are in fact water vapors being released from an under the moon's icy shell. Cassini will make its pass by the moon at 2:30 p.m. eastern time today.