If the earths diameter were larger, lunar eclipses would be smaller or larger????

Question

and this would occur why?

Answer 1

Well, they'd *last* longer.... Because the moon, generally, would have more shadow to traverse before it came back out in the sun again.

Answer 2

Let us assume that Earth's diameter is larger, but the total mass stays the same and the Moon's orbital distance stays the same.

Then, lunar eclipses would last longer because the Earth's shadow, at the Moon's distance, would be larger and the Moon would need more time to cross it.

Lunar eclipses would occur more frequently. As it is now, on most New Moons, the Moon misses the Earth's shadow. That is why there are few lunar eclipses. If the Earth's shadow was larger, then the Moon would not miss it as often.

Answer 3

The eclipses would be the same duration, becasue the moon would still cast a shadow the same size. But the moons shadow would have a chance to track across a longer swath of the Earth, allowing more people to witness it.

This assumes that the larger Earth still rotated at the same speed and that the moon was still the same distance away.

Answer 4

It would be the same since the eclipse is just the shadow of earth being projected onto the moon and the moon will be the same size. Of course, since the diameter of the earth is larger then that means you would be a bit closer to the moon and it may be larger in appearance.

Answer 5

assuming that the moon's orbit being the same distance, if the Earth was larger, Lunner ecilpes would happen more frequntly and last longer, becauuse there's more shadow for it to pass through