Jakarta –
Effort Exploration of the moon by developed countries in recent years, making the natural satellite that accompanies the Earth in danger of being destroyed if humans go too far.
During the nearly 4.5 billion year history of our Solar System, the Earth was not alone in its orbit around the Sun, but with the Moon. The Moon plays an important role in Earth’s relationship with the other components of our Solar System and in life as we know it on Earth.
Hence, destroying it could be disastrous. Whether it’s the failure of a mining operation on the moon, a nuclear explosion or a collision with another planet, whatever the cause of this disaster, it will change our world forever. Here are at least seven things that will happen to Earth if the Moon explodes, quoted from Focus on science.
1. Lunar debris rains down on Earth
Even if pieces moon it would be huge, dense and potentially even bigger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, it would have much less energy due to its lower orbital speed.
An asteroid or comet hitting the Earth moves at a speed of twenty, fifty, or even more than a hundred kilometers per second. The lunar debris, however, would likely move at only 8 km/s and briefly crash into our atmosphere.
However, debris hitting the Earth will still be destructive and can be deadly because there is so much of it and it spreads in all directions.
If the explosion is weak enough, the debris will reform into one or more new moons. If it’s too strong, nothing will be left and it will create a ring system around the Earth like Saturn. Over time, those chunks of the Moon will drift out of orbit in the presence of Earth’s atmosphere, creating a number of other impacts.
2. The night sky will be brighter
The night sky will naturally be much brighter. Like this moon and all its remnants are gone, the second brightest object in the sky here on Earth will disappear completely.
The Sun will naturally be 400,000 times brighter than the full Moon at perigee (the Moon’s closest point to Earth). Without the Moon, there would be no natural barrier to a year-round dark sky.
3. No more eclipses
Earth has experienced solar and lunar eclipses, partial, full, or annular, when Earth’s natural satellite passes through the planet’s shadow. If there were no Moon, Earth would no longer experience eclipses of any kind.
An eclipse requires three objects to align: the Sun, the planets, and the planetary Moon. When the Moon passes between the Sun and a planet, a shadow can appear on the planet’s surface (total eclipse), the Moon can cross the Sun’s surface (annular eclipse), or it can obscure only a small part of the Sun’s light ( partial eclipse eclipse).
But without moon none of this was going to happen. Our only natural satellite will never enter the Earth’s shadow, so there will be no eclipses.
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