"No time to look at the moon every night? Now you can just watch a time-lapse that shows a changing view of the moon over the course of 2011 (see video above). Created by a team at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Scientific Visualisation Studio, it's the first time a computer simulation has reproduced the shadows on the moon in such high resolution. " http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/06/time-lapse-tuesday-a-year-in-the-life-of-the-moon.html
Abstract: A recent analysis of a Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) data record spanning 38.7 yr revealed an anomalous increase of the eccentricity of the lunar orbit amounting to de/dt_meas = (9 +/- 3) 10^-12 yr^-1.