Timeline for What would be the consequences for Earth if the moon disappeared?
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| Sep 16, 2016 at 5:43 | comment | added | ThomasW | The (traditional) Chinese calendar is also lunar-based. | |
| Apr 22, 2015 at 7:57 | comment | added | cwallenpoole | Not only Muslims: the Jewish calculation of passover and the Christian calculation of Easter are both, in part, based on lunar calendars. | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 13:48 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | ... whereas branches of Islam that already use pre-calculated calendars would be unaffected by the quandry. | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 13:47 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | My understanding (which may be wrong) is that in Islam even where dates are based on the literal observation of the moon, and therefore can be affected by cloud as well as this hypothetical loss of moon, they're on the basis of "it's either this day or the next day according to whether the moon is observed on the first day or not", not "it doesn't happen until the moon is observed". Therefore Islam might well be aghast, but conceivably could continue without changing the rules if that's what they decided. Months would always be 30 days, and the year would be longer. | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 11:13 | comment | added | Gary Walker | Interesting observation re: religious observance. Modern days Jews have a number of problems, their temple was destroyed and the lost the lineage of the priesthood, the objects used in worship such as the ark of the covenant, the alter of incense, etc. are all gone. Yet, they continue their religion in many ways unchanged. No more animal sacrifices, but they still read the traditional books and follow the traditional laws. Given that you can calculate all the astronomical events as if the moon were still present, it would seem that little change would necessarily follow. | |
| Apr 20, 2015 at 10:47 | history | answered | Thorsten S. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |