If the Moon is falling, ...?

Question

... will it ever reach Earth?

If so, when? If not, why?

What about artificial satellites?

Answer 1

The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, and only 1 side of the moon is constantly facing the Earth. Many theories hold out that the moon was actually a piece of the Earth that formed out of a collision with a huge asteroid, in a cataclysmic explosion eons ago.

If you only know about the 9 planets, the sun and the moon, check this out: There are 61 moons in our Solar System alone and 165 to 235 planetary bodies in our own Milky Way Galaxy, not to mention all the other galaxies in the universe. We must build a Dynamo on each one to create an ATMOSPHERE. If it spins on its axis, like Mars, it can be a MOLTEN IRON Dynamo, which will sustain itself because of eddy currents spinning.

If it doesn't spin on its axis like the Moon, then a Superconducting Magnet or Neodymium Boron type of cylindrical/bar magnet must be inserted into the core. The Earth's core conists of Iron and Nickel and is a molten iron Dynamo. The strength of the Magnetic Dynamo must be 10,000 Gauss (1 Tesla) or more. On Earth, the Dynamo is at least 5,000 Gauss (1/2 Tesla) and the magnetic field strength is 0.5 to 2.0 Gauss over the surface of the Earth. With this knowledge, we can build ATMOSPHERES and restaurants throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Answer 2

Moon isn't falling on the Earth; on the contrary, it's slowly going far from the Earth. In fact, the gravitational attraction by the Moon on the Earth's water masses (like oceans) causes the Earth to slow its rotation (even if the rate of this diminuition is very low, so it will be evident in billions of years). The physic law of the conservation of the angular moment says that to maintain a costant angular moment the Moon must increase its distance from the Earth. The rate of this receeding is about 3-4 cm per year. About 200 millions of years ago, for example, the Moon was nearer and probably appeared bigger than today.
Artificial satellites are rotating around the Earth because of the force of gravity, the same that could make them to fall on the ground. The reason it doesn't happen is that satellites move with a constant speed along their orbits. This speed is determined at the moment of their positioning and is great enough to make the satellites to continously fall towards the Earth; but the Earth's surface is a sphere, so in its continous motion of falling, a satellite actually never touches the ground.

Answer 3

The moon, actually, is moving farther away from the earth. Artificial satellites, on the other hand, are always dropping down to earth. All but the largest ones burn up in the atmosphere. The others are controlled by NASA or other space agencies, so they simply land in the ocean.

However, if the moon WAS falling, it certainly could reach earth and kill us all. Hope that makes somebody's day.

Answer 4

The Moon was much closer to Earth when they both were in their formation stages. The Moon was so close to the primeval Earth that it caused tides more like in the tsunami range. In some cases hundreds of feet high.

The Moon continues to move further away from the Earth by approximately 3.cm. each year so you won't have anything to worry about any time soon. The distance is measured by bouncing lasers off reflectors on the lunar surface left by the Apollo astonauts. In the distant future the Moon will so far away from the Earth, it will no longer have any effect on tides.

The gravity of the Moon stabilizes the tendency of the Earth to wobble in relation to it's axis and the lack of influence will result in seasons on Earth which are wildly different to what we see today.

Artificial satellites regularly fall to Earth from low Earth orbit but most communication satellites are much further out from Earth and not prone to fall out of orbit in the same way. When these geosynchronous satellites have outlived their usefulness they are steered to a lower orbit to re-enter the atmospheer where they burn up.

Answer 5

No, our moon is rotating farther away. It is losing gravitational force from the Earth. My hypothesis, if the moon had a larger mass, then the moon and Earth would collide.

For artificial satellites, they might fall because of our sun's solar storms can fry satellites' electronics. The artificial satellites would fall because the guidance system would fail or float in space.

Answer 6

N O, The Moon is moving away from the Earth at
about 1 inch per year!!

Answer 7

nope. the moon is forever falling towards earth, that is true, but by the time it gets to where the earth was, the earth has moved, so it misses, comes around for another pass, then the earth moves again.
that is the nature of orbiting bodies, the same thing happens for artificial satellites and for astronauts. the feeling of "weightlessness" is NOT because there is no gravity in space, that is a myth, there is gravity everywhere. the feeling of weightlessness is because of this continuous free fall.

Answer 8

there's a good risk of that occurring yet on no account in 2 months. do no longer lose dissimilar sleep over it, if it does happen it won't happen for roughly 4 billion years and all life on earth would have been lifeless for roughly 3 billion years. In approximately 4 billion years the sunlight will improve into its pink significant degree. If its outer ecosystem engulfs the earth, the moon, effected by this cloth will probable have its orbit affected and it would desire to lose speed and crash back into the earth. of direction the earth could be similarliy be effected in its orbit, and it would desire to spiral down into the sunlight. we actually do no longer understand the dimensions the sunlight would be for the period of its boost so there are various different issues that would desire to happen. There are fashions showing the earth shifting outwards, faraway from the sunlight.

Answer 9

No. the moon is actually moving away from the surface of the earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.

Answer 10

In a sense, yes it is falling. BUT it is also translating, so as it translates it falls, so it sort of stair-steps its way in what we perceive as a relatively circular orbit.

As you know this is all due to the effect of gravity, and no, it's unlikely it will ever fall into earth.