If the moon were to earth such that it had an orbital period of 24 hours, what would the tides be like ?

Answer 1

First of all to do that, the moon have have to be 25,000 miles from the earth (that's the center of the moon). It would take up half the sky and the tide should be in lock step with the same position on earth and probably be a few hundred feet high. The moon would be in geosynchronous orbit.

Answer 2

If the moon had an orbital period of 24 hours it would stay in a geosychronous orbit. This means moon would always be above a certain point on the Earth because the rotation of Earth = 24 hours and the moons revolution = 24 hours. This would cause the close and far sides of the Earth to the moon to experience high or spring tides 24 hours a day for as long as the moon is in geosynchronous orbit. East and West sides of the Earth from the moons perspective will always have low or neap tides.

Answer 3

several things could happen, depending on how the moon circles the earth.
- if the moon stays over the equator at all times, and orbits in the same direction of the earth turning, then there would be no tide at all.
- if the moon however orbits opposite of the earth turn, you would get a high tide twice a day.

- if the moon revolved around the earth, in an orbit that is not perpendicular to the equator, you would have tides atleast twice aday, when high tide goes to the north hemisphere, and the low tide to the south (or vica verse)

- the fourth option is where the earth revolves opposite of hte earths orbit, and the moon is not perpendicular to the equator, you would end up with 8 high-tides a day.

the levels of tides differ in each different situation above.

Answer 4

There would be a tidal bulge that would process very slowly, since the moon would be within 4 minutes of a perfect synchronous orbit (23hr 56 min). The bulge would move about 1 degree of longitude each day.

If you were trying to ask what would happen to the tides if the moon's orbital period was exactly equal to the period of rotation of the earth, the tidal bulge would not move (ignoring contributions from the sun's gravity).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_rotation#Rotation_period

Answer 5

That would be sooooooooo crazy, first of all there would no longer be a dark side of the moon. The tides would just shorten their period.