What will happen if the moon moves away from the earth?

Answer 1

The Moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of about 38 mm per year, due to tidal drag. Through gravitational interactions, the Earth is gradual taking energy from the Moon's orbit, which causes the Moon to move out and slow down. This will cause the effects of the tides to become weaker, and eventually the Moon will be far enough that it can't completely cover the disk of the Sun, meaning the end of total solar eclipses. The Moon will still transit the Sun on occasion, but the Sun's blazing corona won't become visible. While the Moon moves away from the Earth, the Earth's rotation is gradually slowing at the rate of about 15 x 10^-6 s per year. Eventually, the Earth's period of rotation will be equal to the Moon's, which will be equal to the period of the Moon's orbit, which is already equal to its period of rotation, but which will be longer than it is today. At that point, the lunar tide will be stationary, and ocean tides will be caused only by the Sun. However, the Sun itself will be red giant by then and will probably have swallowed both the Earth and Moon.

Answer 2

The moon is moving away from the earth at the moment. The moon causes tidal bulges in the earth, the tidal bulges in the ocean are dragged around as the earth spins and tend to lead the moons orbit. This gravitational pull from these large bulges _adds_ energy to the moon so that it is increasingly speeding up and moving further from the earth. It also takes energy from the earths rotation about it's own axis and the days gradually get a bit longer as the spin decreases. If nothing else changes there may be a time where the lunar month and the day coincide.

Answer 3

The moon is always falling towards the earth. Never moving away from it. If it does there is a good chance that the earth is also moving towards some other large gravitational force. This could be possible only if the source of the gravitation is larger than that of the sun.

Answer 4

for me i think if the moon moves away from the earth(although i don't know how) the effects are as follows...c;
1. there will be no natural light at night time except for stars but still they don't have enough light to replace the moon.
2. there will be a decrease in high tides because as we all know, high tides are caused by the pull of the moon's gravity therefore there will no longer be enough gravity coming from the moon to cause the high tide if the moon moves away from the earth.

hope this will somehow help you...c;

Answer 5

No tides, and no eclipses. Actually, the moon is moving away from the earth about an inch a year due to tidal friction, but it will continue being in orbit -- just a bit bigger orbit.

Answer 6

The Moon isn't being pulled greater away with the aid of the solar's gravity. think of approximately it: the Moon and the Earth are at regarding the comparable distance from the solar, with tiny month-to-month modifications. The solar IS pulling the Moon, in spite of if it is likewise pulling the Earth with very almost the comparable rigidity consistent with kilogram. because of the fact of this the centripetal acceleration of the Moon is the comparable because of the fact the centripetal acceleration of the Earth, and one isn't shifting in direction of the solar speedier than the different. to boot, if that have been the reason, you may anticipate to work out the Moon's orbit growing to be greater elongated in direction of the solar. however the Earth-Moon distance is growing to be everywhere in the Moon's orbit, so there could desire to be yet another ingredient at artwork. The Moon motives a tidal bulge in Earth's oceans, meaning that water dealing with in direction of and faraway from the Moon is stretched out somewhat. The effect isn't lots, in comparison to the diameter of the Earth, in spite of if that's actual. If the Earth weren't rotating, the tidal bulge might line up completely with the Earth-Moon line. in spite of if, the Earth IS rotating, and it sweeps the tidal bulge forward a tiny bit. because of the fact the mass of the tidal bulge is "forward" of the Moon, it motives the Moon to advance up in its orbit. an superior orbital velocity means a miles better orbit, and so each century the Moon strikes extremely greater out because of tide-led to acceleration. of path, kinetic potential can no longer in user-friendly terms be created like that. because of the fact the Moon constructive factors kinetic potential, it robs it from the Earth. because of the Earth's tidal interplay with the Moon, the Earth's day is likewise slowly getting longer. we will not see any noticible exchange in our lifetimes, yet in some million years we are going to ought to invent new clocks if we are nevertheless around as a species.

Answer 7

Well i'm not sure why it would? The moon doesn't tend to get bored I don't think.... I think you've got more to worry about if the sun decides to move away from the earth :|

Answer 8

There will be no tides in the sea, if it moves far
Nights will always be dark...
Lovers won't have one thing to cherish about, the beutiful moon
No Lunar or Solar eclipse
No more trips to moon... it'll become difficult, well of course depends on where it moves to.
Last and not the least i won't be answering this question...

Answer 9

According to my belief -----First of all Moon is not a member of our Solar Family {Scientists, please excuse me} The Moon is older than the Sun and it had come to its today's position by accident and was mercilessly clicked between the gravitation of both Sun and Earth. The lives on the earth begun only after the coming of Moon hence the Moon is strictly responsible for the lives on the earth...

According to Hindu belief Mahalakshmi - the donar of eight types of fortunes (Ashta Aiswariyam) is the sister of Moon-hence SHE is refereed as Chandra Sahodari or Soma Sodari-both meaning-SISTER OF THE MOON. Once the Moon is out of our reach.... take it granted that Maha Lakshmi is out of our reach....; WHEN MAHA LAKSHMI IS OUT OF EVERY THINGS IS OUT... THEN EVERY THING IS OUT ONCE FOR ALL ...it is up to you to imagine WITH OUT THE BLESSINGS OF Maha Lakshmi ON THIS EARTH...!!

Answer 10

The loss of natural satellite will push every human being in the well of sadness. some amount of solar energy will be used by people at night times instead of moon