• Question: could we survive without the moon?

    Asked by chivvy to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      The most dangerous thing about Earth without a moon would be the resulting ‘wobbling’ spin axis, due to the loss of the gravitational tug of the moon on earth.

      Earth might wobble so much that seasons would become inhospitably extreme and Earth would be a much less stable and habitable planet

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