What would happen to the earth if the moon was destroyed?

Answer 1

Hello michelle.... I consider the following probabilities to your ques. :
1. We won't have tides any more...thus sea navigation would be drasticaly disrupted.
2. Moon also regulates (to a certain extent) the season cycle on the planet, in absence of which the gravity of circumstances 'd be unimaginable.
3. The sea waters which are held by the gravity of the moon, wouls rise drastically in some areas(causing costal flooding)and receding in some regions (may lead to desertification)
4. An impact on the shape of the earth 'd also be felt.
5. Earth may also be deviated from its orbit around the sun, if at all, by a few milli degrees (don't take it lightly, these few milli degrees can become millions of miles a few 1000 yrs later)
6. Solar eclipses 'd no longer take place, let alone the lunar eclipses.
7. Nights 'd no more be lit with the lunar lights.
8. No more lunar missions of NASA.
9. NASA's project to establish a fuelling station on moon for its mars missions 'd be dropped.
10. We 'd loose a good evidence of the early days of earth.
11. Astronomers may no more define distances in the terms of lunar distances.
12. The most suffering section 'd be of the astrologers and the "moon base time sys." of the Indians, egyptians, and chinese.
13. We 'd have another mystery.... How did the moon vanish?

Apart from science, I think this could also happen :
1. No more moon for the lovers to stare at and compare wid their intimates.
2. Kids 'd no more fascinate at that giant cheese ball.
3. No more help for the horror movies.
4. No more bed time moon stories.

Answer 2

i have watched a program on Discovery channel last couple of years regarding this question. They said there would be a time in the future when Earth will have no Moon. In early civilizations, great philosophers and astronomers believed that there was a time in man kind on Earth when there was no moon. I would say to them.."yea, whatever!" but i might be wrong since i have no knowledge of Earth's rotation back in those days.
As of today, Earth rotates 23.5 degrees on its own. Without Moon, it is impossible to survive on this planet since the Moon is the key factor of that rotation. Some NASA Physicists stated that Earth will rotate faster, and some said slower by looking at different results from computer generated rotations of Earth. Whatever the speed it will rotate, it will not be a good thing. Earth will wobble with no certain degrees on rotation. Due to that, we will have Tokyo under water today and it will be land again tomorrow, same thing with New York and Washington D.C. Mountains will appear in oceans. Volcanoes will erupt today and under water tomorrow. There will be no certain seasonal changes like we have today. Christmas or New Year's Day might be in middle of July or September with no constant time. Time will no longer exist. It might also damage Earth's magnectic field which is protecting us from radiation from the Sun.
Temperature will drop enormously below zero, and it will rise in a matter of minutes. It will be worse than Ice Age or Nuclear Winter when there were be some little places to hide and survive. With Earth's crazy rotation, there would not be a single place to stay for humans, but amazingly not for some animals that can stay either on land or in water. Even for them, they have little chance to survive. It will be the end of civilization or life forms on Earth.

Answer 3

If our moon replace into destroyed the outcomes in the international may be huge. the main prompt result may be the lack of ability of communications with the international satellites in area, the two maned and unmaned: all of them rely on mirrors that are on the the moon that reflects distinctive waves OR alerts to and from earth. Then the oceans currents and waves will bypass rogue inflicting significant shifts in magnetic poles and in so the aspects will immediately worsen. final effects may be the air wherein we breath will replace into much less and much less dense, plant life will die in some areas and different places vegetation, Animals and bugs could have an great boost in length. New land will Terra variety into jungles and rain forests. the only different threat may be the oceans will upward push above the land in the northern hemisphere poles will shift immediately inflicting a clean longterm ice age.

Answer 4

-If the moon was destroyed- might not be the best way to phrase that. because there is the "why" and lunar "schrapnel".

But if the moon just disapperared one day, slowly but surely, the earth as we currently know it, would die. The globe itself would remain, but the breakdown of the basic ecological structures and systems would all fail with the abscence of the ocean tides.

The Moon and the Sun have the ultimate impact on the natural life on Earth. The removal of either one would destroy life on the planet and leave us looking like Mars.

Answer 5

Destroyed how? explode suddenly, vanish into a different universe? hit by a giant celestial body and change it's orbit away from earth?
to your information, the moon and earth are slowly increasing the distance between them, but that process is very slow

Answer 6

I think the one key answer is the wobbling. You can look at other planets that do not have a strong lunar force like we have, and see the wild extremes the earth's axis would experience without the stablising moon. Therefore, our seasons would be shot to hell, and temperature extremes alone would finish us off.

Answer 7

The Earth's Tidal waters would change and the water cycle would be affected. Also, The Earth would also be bombarded by a lot more asteroids and meteors from space as the planet would be completely exposed.

Answer 8

We might be pelted with bits of moon, depending on the method of moon destruction.

No more solar eclipses or lunar eclipses, no more tides, the biological clocks of some organisms may go out of sync...Can't really think of anything else.

Answer 9

if moon was destroyed,no tides,no lunar eclipses,moonless nights,no expeditions to moon, n nothin else.absolutely nothin,,,,,many ppl said floods n destruction of earth thats all crap.....

Answer 10

no seasons, no day and night no life