The distance to the Moon and the tidal dissipation parameter Q of the Earth after a canonical Moon-forming impact. Using Equation (6), the tidal Q parameters (efficiency of tides) corresponding to the individual simulations are calculated, subsequently Equation (10) is used to estimate the lunar orbital recession at the tidal power densities corresponding to the Q-parameters. Data points for fO₂ = ΔIW − 2 and fO₂ = ΔIW − 4 at tidal power densities =10⁻¹⁰ W kg⁻¹ are linearly extrapolated from other data points in the figure (see the data reduction code in the Data Availability), as these cases solidified before tidal heating exceeded >0.1 W m⁻². The purple lines shows the tidal Q parameter evolution found by K. J. Zahnle et al. (2015), with times in megayears after the Moon-forming impact. The red regions show the evection resonance (ER; J. Touma & J. Wisdom 1998), Laplace plane transition (LPT; S. Tremaine et al. 2009), and Cassini state transition (CST; S. J. Peale 1969).