what would happen if there was no moon?

Answer 1

We wouldn't have tides.
We'd get hit by a lot more asteriods/meteorites.
We probably wouldn't have months.

Answer 2

The moon controls the tides so without it the seas all round the planet would be in chaos probably with the tides coming inland a lot farther than they do now. The moon's gravity stops lots of meteors hitting the Earth (they hit the moon instead hence all the craters), although the Earths atmosphere would burn them up so we wouldn't have to worry about a daily occurence like the start of the film Armageddon!! (unless they were too big to burn up). Also as many have said it would be a lot darker at night although you do realise the moon has NO light of its own- the light we see coming from it is just sunlight shining on it. Finally just think - Neil Armstrong wouldn't be famous, werewolves would have to get their powers from another source and an old tv show would have been called Button Sun probably!

Answer 3

Certainly tidal forces would be reduced significantly, although not eliminated as the Sun would still have a slight effect.

Also, our days would be much shorter since the tidal damping of the Earth's rotation would not have occurred. Analysis of corals (among other things) show that the Earth's rotation was significantly faster 300 million years ago such that days were only 22 hours long.

Nights would be darker allowing better view of the stars and Neil Armstrong would have been just another pilot over North Vietnam.

Contrary to one response, the absence of the Moon would have little appreciable affect on the number of extraterrestrial impacts on Earth.

Answer 4

if there was no moon? all the world would be different, all threw time since the start of time, man has set goals, to travel to the moon, now imagine yourself 200 years ago, sitting in a field watching the sheep, looking up at the stars and seeing the moon, it lets people dream, also all the great men in history used the moon as a guide to build things, without people to dream things wouldn't of come true in the future.

i hope i have answered you Question for you.

Answer 5

depends.

If it was a sudden event and the moon vanished, the earth would be rocked by earthquakes and tidal waves. The moon exerts a constant force (gravity) upon the earth and to have it suddenly removed would be like a spring suddenly releasing.
If, however, the moon was never there....
Religion as we know it would not have come into existence, (as there would have been no Sky-God using his one eye to stare at us!) Astronomy would have exploded all around the planet as developing humans looked up to see the wonders of deep space at night with no moon ruining the sight with its glow.

Perhaps with no moon we would already be amongst the stars.


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Answer 6

. If the Earth did not have a moon, there would be very little fluctuation in the tides.

. With very little fluctuation in the tides, many coastal sea creatures would not exist.

. As a species, we once emerged from the sea, presumably at the coast.

. Therefore, our evolutionary predecessors would not have existed.

. Therefore we would not exist. Q.E.D. :0)

Answer 7

there would be no ocean tides, becasue ocean tides are casued by the gravitational pulls of the moon and the sun on the opposite sides of the Earth. And it would be dark. :D

Answer 8

actually, the moon is shifting away from us. it was much closer million years ago than now.
eventually, it will go out of the orbit.

Answer 9

Our orbit would become more erratic and our axis would wobble. Forget tides we'd probably all die form extreme weather conditions and gravitational fluxes.

Answer 10

The sea would be like a mill pond