How would the night sky look and how bout the monthly lunar scheduling be like
2007-02-16 05:24:55 · 10 answers · asked by Cuddly Lez 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Chances are the gravitational increase on the earth would affect the "wobble" of the earth that gives us the four seasons. The change could range from stopping the wobble and giving us just one season or it could increase the wobble and give us more seasons, or, it could make no difference at all. It would definitely necessitate a change in the song "Moon River".
2007-02-16 05:37:33 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For such scenario to be stable, they would have to be smaller moons. Likely captured asteroids, like the moons of Mars, and many of the small moons of the gas giants. As such, they'd tend to be in closer orbits, and would look much more like bright, bright stars, like satellites or the ISS do now. With this in mind, a lunar month would be drastically shorter than the one we have now. Tides would also be much lower, given the low mass of the moons in this scenario. Earth would also have a more variable axial tilt and more dramatic climate swings over periods of hundreds of thousands of years, since there would be no single giant moon stabilizing Earth's rotation.
2007-02-16 06:09:59 · answer #2 · answered by Sam D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would not survive !! In any system using more than one moon about a planey the weakest will be drawn toward the stronger until they colide. Eventually we get down to one, so perhaps this already happened to us and we just don't know it because of the violent times we were in when it happened and we assume it was asteroids hitting our moon when it was really neighboring moons.
I am also sure this very fate awaits our gas giants in the distant future.
While it last, it would make for a spectacular night sky, and would be a very interresting view.
2007-02-16 05:40:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The tides would be different and you would be able to see 4 moons at varying times, night and day, depending on their orbits, like you can with one moon at the moment.
2007-02-16 05:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by the_emrod 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It'd be a lot harder to find good nights for watching meteors.
2007-02-16 08:05:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ocean currents and tides will be different, rotation is different with planets, and the light at night.
2007-02-16 05:33:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it would brighter at night; not sure about the schedule, maybe they would all be behind one another and not disrupt it
2007-02-16 05:27:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The tides would be completely different.
2007-02-16 05:28:00 · answer #8 · answered by aanusze1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The night would be brighter and whiter.
2007-02-16 05:27:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
that would be so cool you have a good head on your shoulders
2007-02-16 05:28:13 · answer #10 · answered by Catherine 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋