Sopossed that the earth stopped rotating 24 hours from now....?

Question

how would life on earth be affected by this major "turn of events"?

what effect the lack of rotation will have on earth??

LENGTH OF DAY:??

SEASONS:???

MEASUREMENTS OF TIME:??

APPARENT MOTION OF THE PLANETS, SUN, MOON STARS:??

WEATHER:??

ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES IN ORBIT AROUND THE EARTH:??





thank you if you can answer these. ITS for my science project.

Answer 1

The length of the day would be equal to the length of the year. This would obviously be fairly catstrophic for weather conditions, as well as life on Earth. The sun would NOT remain motionless, and one side of the Earth would NOT be in constant sunlight and another in darkness. For that to happen, the Earth would have to rotate so that one side always faced the sun during the orbit. However, since the sun would be up for half a year, temperature variations between day and night would be extreme.

Things would not start floating away from the Earth either. We are held here by Earth's gravity which is caused by its mass, not its rotation. However due to the lack of outward centrifugal force from the rotation, things nearer the equator might be slightly heavier than they are now.

There really wouldn't be seasons anymore as the length of the day would be the length of the year. I suppose you could call the different times of the "new day" as it were a particular season but that is about the best you could do.

Time would likely be measured in the same way but the 24 hour day would no longer make sense, as that is based on Earth's rotation.

Since the Earth would no longer be rotating, the celestial sphere as well would no longer rotate. The stars would all stay in the same place in the sky. You'd have to go to another part of the world to see the other stars. The moon would still move through the sky, but very slowly. It would remain visible for a good two weeks at a time, then be gone for another two weeks or so. It would still have phases, with the same lunation period (about 29.5 days). What phases you'd see for any particular lunation would depend on where the sun was in the sky. The planets would still move relative to the stars as they always do.

Weather patterns would be completely different in this situation than they are now. I'm not a meteorologist so I can't really predict how this would affect the weather, but you could be sure it would be very different than it is now.

Any satellites in orbit around the Earth would not be affected to any significant degree, though all the satellites that were before geostationary would no longer be so, as they would be revolving about an Earth that is no longer rotating itself.

Hope these answers help.

Answer 2

That would have disastrous effect on life as we know it. The side of the Earth that is currently facing the sun would become unbearably hot in the endless daylight, whilst the side facing away from the sun would languish in a frigid endless night. Most of the Earth would be almost uninhabitable due to these extreme conditions, particularly those nearest to the equator.

To people on the side exposed to the sun, it would appear that the sun remains motionless. To those on the other side, the moon will appear to shine endlessly. On some parts of the Earth, the sky will appear to be caught in a perpetual sunrise or sunset. In short, day and night as we know it would cease.

I am not sure of how the lack of the Earth's rotation would affect artificial satellites, as their orbit is determined more by the Earth's gravitational field than its rotation, which I am not sure has anything to do with its gravitational field.

Seasons are caused by the Earth's tilt on its axis, not its rotation or distance from the sun. However, exposure to constant sunlight, as would happen on one side of the Earth would bake the surface, making it seem like a hellish summer in the equatorial regions. On the other side, the cold and darkness would make it feel like endless winter. Only closer to the polar regions would the seasons be somewhat closer to the norm.

Answer 3

First of all if it stopped at once, all things at the equator would continue moving at about 1,100 miles an hour.
Length of the day would be one year.
The would be four seasons, but with much larger temp swings. On the day side the temps would soar, and on the night side the temps would drop until the atmosphere would liquefy. Each day and each night would be 182.5 present length days long. One full day would be one year long.
The satellites would keep going around, but the Geo synchronous ones would be revolving around the planet every 24 hours, the closer ones at up to 90 minutes per orbit like now.
Measurement of time would be the same, gravity would be the same (somewhat higher than now at the equator).

The stars would be fixed in place, as the earth would not turn in relation to them. That would also seem to make the sun revolve once around the earth once a year.
The weather? Anybodies guess. Probably big storms going from the day side to the night side. The moon would still travel around the earth every 28 days.
Not a place I would want to live in. ;-)

Answer 4

the LENGTH OF A DAY: ??? One "new" day would become 365 1/4 current days, because that is the time for one complete revolution around the sun. In one revolution we would experience one day, and one night. MEASUREMENT OF TIME:???? Would not be affected, as it is now set by the vibration of an element, The relevance of AM and PM would be lost, as we would no longer have a day and a night within a 24 hr time period WEATHER:???????? Because one side of the earth would be in total darkness for 1/2 of a current year, there would be no warming by the sun on the darkside, and the side facing the sun, would be warming up. Add that most plants cannot survive 6 months of darkness, there would be a collapse of most of our plant ecological systems that consume carbon dioxide, so CO2 would go up, accelerating global warming APPARENT MOTION OF THE PLANETS, SUN, & MOON STARS:????? Because of gravitation forces, the moon would begin to slow down, and its orbit would decrease until it hits the earth. For the short term, we would begin to see the backside of the moon, as the rotational period of the moon on its axis would no longer exactly match that of the earth. Apparent motion of the sun and stars would not change when compared to a yearly basis, however within a 24 hr time period, we would not see the same motion as we do today.

Answer 5

There would be no more days and no more seasons as the they are all based upon Earth's roatation. The stars would no longer rise or set, they would just move as Earth orbits the sun. The moon would stay in the same phase all the time. The planets would move and change because they are stil moving. Satellites would still be there, although the geosynchronous satellites (they orbit at the same rate as Earth) wouldn't work. And the weather would go crazy and kill us all. That's my non-scientific answer for something that is implausible anyway, but have fun with it.

Answer 6

Seas over earths, houses and people. The heat generated by the kinetic energy will burn all of us. All buildings will be broken by the sudden stop.
A total disaster. All life on earth will dissapear.

Answer 7

If the Earth stopped spinning, I think the atmosphere would blow out and we would lose magnetisim. Though if you really think about it, something would have to go TERRIBLY wrong for the world to stop spinning. In that case, we would all be dead anyways.

Answer 8

If earth stopped spinning gravity would cease and everything including us would float off

Answer 9

the ones wearing seat belts would live on