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Moons orbit their planets, and they maintain stable orbits through gravity and their own orbital velocities. The moon is moving away from the earth at a very slow rate due to tidal effects. This will not be observable for centuries, at least. So it is clear that the moon will not collide with the earth. And everything in the earth-moon system's planetary path has long ago collided with the earth or moon, or left our general neighborhood for wider or narrower orbits. This does not exclude the possibility that objects moving from other parts of space might from time to time collide with us.

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