Will Mars ever get so close to earth it will disrupt our oceans?

Answer 1

Assuming current orbits remain somewhat as they are for the foreseeable future, no. Mars gets closest to Earth every 22 months or so, some approaches are closer than others. But never are the approaches close enough to disturb Earth in noticeable way... (A) because the distance is still great and (B) because Mars is pretty small, hence its gravitational force is rather small.

Another body would have to disturb Earth's or Mars' current orbits by a huge degree for the 2 to ever disturb each other. There's currently no known body that would create such a situation (comets and asteroids do not have the influence needed to create such a disturbance).

Answer 2

The closest Mars gets to Earth is about 34 million miles. That's a pretty far distance for a planet that's not too much larger than our Moon. The effect it would have on our tides is so minimal as to be considered negligible.

Whatever gave you the idea that Mars could disrupt our oceans??

Answer 3

It could, but its orbit and ours are both fairly stable that it would take a large gravitational field near Mars to disrupt its orbit and send it our way (and that's a long way, between 350 million and 249 million miles).
And Mars is small but still has significant mass, so it would have to be an object of similar size or larger to move Mars out of its orbit.

Answer 4

Gravity goes forever, so Mars is affected Earth's oceans right now. It's so far away though that the difference is negligible compared to the gravity of the moon, which is much closer.

Answer 5

No,in fact millions of years from now even the moon will not be a factor either since it's moving away from us at a 1½ inch a year

Answer 6

Yeh, repeating the last respondant's question -

"What gave you the idea that Mars would get close?"

There is no reason it should. What crap have you been reading?

Answer 7

Maybe in a jillion years.

Answer 8

Perhaps, but we will be long dead by then.

Answer 9

no