Assertion: solar system's moon | /r/CapableOf | recede at a rate of about 4 cm per year
Facets:
value: from the earth
type: LOCATION
value: gradually
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Another, the fission model, was developed by George Darwin (son of Charles Darwin), who noted that, as the Moon is gradually receding from the Earth at a rate of about 4 cm per year, so at one point in the distant past it must have been part of the Earth, but was flung outward by the momentum of Earth's then–much faster rotation.