What would be the effects on the earth if we blasted the moon to smithereens and made it disappear?

Answer 1

"Disappear" requires some interpretation to be meaningful. It would make a debris ring. If the explosion were big enough, some of the debris would escape earth's orbit or hit the earth. In that case, the earth would be subjected to catastrophic bombardment, potentially severe enough to melt the surface.

Answer 2

Oh wow...many things! Main two things being that one, our ocean's tides would get all messed up because of the gravitational pull from the Moon.....we might have more floods or God only knows....
Also, the moon shields Earth from asteroids, so we'd probably get hit a lot more, as well as from all these smithereens you are talking about.

Also, it would just be very sad to look up and not see a moon, and actually would be kind of scary to just see sky and stars...
I think the moon has lots of gravitational effects on Earth, so I think that would be the main problem.

What an awful thought!

Answer 3

blasting it to smithereens would just create a debris ring in the same orbit the moon currently occupies. Making it disappear is not a matter of science. That part of the questions belongs in the 'magic' category.

Answer 4

there would be 3 different effects, i think.

1 the tidal waves in ocean would be no longer there.

2 the shield it provides against small asteroids will diminish

3 the weight of every thing here in earth would increase by a very small amount, since the relative gravity force will be no longer there

and the term "zero gravity" will be a past,

there would be no solar eclipse and lunar eclipse in the books , and will be a past,

certainly the moonlight will not be there,

Answer 5

i dont think it would spin earth out of orbit, unless a big chunk of the moon hit us with a high velocity.

it would affect tides. which would have an unknown effect to me, because im not interested in geography, or more accurately, oceanography.
I imagine it would be depressing not to ever see a moon again
Possible meteor showers from fragments of the explosion
The loss of the moons gravity may have unseen effects on our orbit, or seasons, exactly what effect im unsure.

Id ask you to reconsider whatever your planning :)

Answer 6

The Earth's oceans, and crust, would experience much lower tidal forces.

Answer 7

There would be no more "the cow jumped over the moon' nursery rhymes., no more romantic stories under the moonlight,....no more NASA plans for another lunar mission.

So....just how do you plan on accomplishing this.?

Answer 8

the earth would spin out of orbit