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By Thomas H. Maugh II / The Bulletin
August 21, 2010
LOS ANGELES — Newly discovered cliffs on the moon indicate that it has shrunk in the past as it cooled off, and that it might even still be shrinking, researchers said this week.
The shrinkage isn’t dramatic — perhaps no more than a 300-foot reduction in the moon’s 2,000-mile diameter — but it....