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You can make an estimate about where this would happen by assuming that the Moon is held together by its own gravity (good guess) and finding the distance from Earth where Earth's tidal forces overwhelm that. I get something like 20,000 km before the big breakup.
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What would happen if the moon exploded, and what would the effects on Earth be? What would be the causes of different magnitudes/locations of ... Actually, the effect on the Earth's orbit would be very small. The Earth and Moon orbit around their common center of gravity which lies a little below the Earth's surface.
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Here's the kicker: On the side of Earth opposite the Moon, the force of the Moon's gravity is less than at the center of the Earth, because of the greater distance. It can actually be thought of as a negative force, in essence, pulling water away from the Moon and away from Earth's surface -- a second high tide.
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Luna is unique among the observed celestial bodies; there is no other satellite closer in size and composition to its mother-planet (if one discounts the dwarf-planet Pluto), and the Earth/moon system is the only tidally locked pair. ... This causes several things to happen: first is a perpetual morphing of the crust–like...
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Failed lunar orbiter (USA); Launch: August 17, 1958; The first attempt by the United States to fly to the Moon ended just 77 seconds after liftoff when the rocket's first stage exploded. ... Luna 3's trajectory took the spacecraft from Earth, around the Moon and back, where it reentered the Earth's atmosphere on April 20, 1960.
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Water on earth's moon? April 14, 2005 4:01 PM Subscribe ... Serious advances in solar power sciences have also been made without great advance in its technologies, which would happen because there was now a motive for them to happen. Robotics would get supercharged, there being a need for any number of robots,
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Such collisions are thought to have created Earth's moon and left other scars in the solar system, but it's not yet clear how common they are around other stars. ... One of the most massive stars known exploded in 2007, creating an unusual type of supernova that was probably common in the early universe...
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Animated video of the Moon orbiting Earth. You can look at it from a side view or a top view. Click on Dr. Smith and Newton to go to the video. ... A lunar eclipse (when the Moon is blocked by the Earth’s shadow) can only happen when there is a full moon.
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Geology of Earth's Moon ... First, researchers at the University of California, San Diego discuss the importance of studying earthquakes on the moon, also known as moonquakes, and the Apollo Lunar Seismic Experiment (1). Users can discover the problems scientists must deal with when collecting the moon's seismic data.
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