i want you opinions because other ppl might not think that the moon wont and will.answer by today like now!
8/16/2006
thnx! [thank you!]
2006-08-17 18:03:26 · 17 answers · asked by hello. 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
no
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2006-08-17 18:09:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Moon is moving through space very fast. It is very heavy. It is far from the Earth. To change its path in a way that would cause it to collide with the Earth would require much more energy than would be caused by the impact of an asteroid. Any object large enough to affect the Moon would also affect the Earth. Both the Earth and the Moon would accelerate toward such an object. This would change the orbits of both the Earth and the Moon. It would not cause the moon to slow down relative to the Earth. If a large object hit the Moon, and had enough energy to fragment the moon, some of the pieces might be blasted to Earth, since Earth's gravity is the strongest in the Moon's neighborhood. The rest of the pieces would probably fall back together and form another Moon.
Small impacts blast bits of the Moon into space. But the Moon weighs 7.36 Ã 10^22 kilograms. That is, 73,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms. To move such a mass would take a lot of work. High speed impacts can pulverize thousands of tons of the Moon's surface and blast a part into space. But the Moon probably only reacts with a small Moon-quake and its orbit is unchanged.
;-D Don't worry about the Moon. It can take care of itself!
2006-08-17 19:14:00 · answer #2 · answered by China Jon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there's no chance of the moon colliding with Earth, even if a large asteroid struck it. If some object came along big enough to disturb the moon's orbit, that object would almost certainly strike Earth instead because Earth's gravity is so much higher than that of the moon.
2006-08-17 18:57:39 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At this point, no....the moon is getting further away by about a centimeter a year. It would take a serious amount of energy to send the moon crashing down to earth (more than likely, the poor moon would be vaporized before it hit the ground, to pardon the pun).
2006-08-17 21:14:10 · answer #4 · answered by swilliamrex 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if it slows down. Right now the moon is falling to the earth but moving so fast it keeps missing. If the speed of orbit where to slow down enough then it would hit the earth. The earth is doing the same thing with the sun.
2006-08-17 19:03:57 · answer #5 · answered by cyn1066 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The current theory is that the earth was struck a glancing blow a few billion years ago by a roughly mars sized object. The resulting debris ejected into space coalesced into our moon. It was much closer then, but slowly moved away to it's present position due to tidal forces. The only thing that could cause it to come crashing back would be a similar catastrophic event.
2006-08-17 18:21:34 · answer #6 · answered by fenwick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moon is actually moving away from the earth. Very slowly. So you will still be able to enjoy it for the next few billion years.
However, if some outside force (like a HUGE meteor) were to hit it just right, it could change the course enough to send it our way.
But it would still probably take millions of year to get here.
2006-08-18 10:14:03 · answer #7 · answered by SPLATT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the moon is slowly moving away from the earth. its orbit is getting progressively bigger. many millenia ago, it was a good bit closer. today it is about 250,000 miles away.
most asteroids are in a belt between the orbit of mars and jupiter. they have been there for several billion years. even the biggest of them is not big enough to knock the moon out of its orbit. it would be the equivalent of a baseball hitting a mountain.
2006-08-17 18:10:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely.
who's to say a massive asteroid couldnt collide with the moon and knock it off course, sending it hurling towards the earth. Of course such an event would be quite unlikely, especially within our lifetimes, but I'm just saying that it's always a possibility.
2006-08-17 18:09:05 · answer #9 · answered by Steven B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so it would happen as the Earth and the Moon have their own gravitational force and even though earth has more
It is not sufficient to pull Moon asit has its own . It would be possible only when the Moon's gravitational force decreases and Earth's force increases.
2006-08-17 20:24:18 · answer #10 · answered by Astronomy Freak 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if my wife was driving.
Seriously, no. The moon's orbit is actually very slowly moving further away - certainly nothing for us to be concerned with.
2006-08-17 18:19:37 · answer #11 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋