Timeline for Is stealing the moon actually possible?
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| Jan 6, 2020 at 2:00 | comment | added | RonJohn | @JohnDvorak as would the Earth's rotational speed and stability. | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 20:01 | comment | added | Greg Martin | You need a large enough force, but that doesn't necessarily require a large mass—it could just be a smaller mass accelerated to a huge velocity. | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 19:25 | comment | added | jamesqf | You could theoretically use a chain of gravity tractors, e.g. disturb the orbit of a small asteroid so that it affects a larger one in just the right way to affect a still larger one, eventually working up to directing a Jovian moon (or similar-sized body) towards the Moon. | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 17:28 | comment | added | John Dvorak | Tides would definitely get disrupted.IIRC, only about 1/3 of the tide strength comes from Sun gravity, and 2/3 come from the Moon. | |
| Jan 5, 2020 at 14:05 | comment | added | a25bedc5-3d09-41b8-82fb-ea6c353d75ae | In terms of consequences for earth, it is extremely unlikely that its orbit would be affected. Back in my first college physics class, our professor actually discussed this question and according to his calculations there would be no noticeable affect on Earth's orbit. | |
| Jan 4, 2020 at 9:43 | vote | accept | Gideon Ebeling | ||
| Jan 6, 2020 at 4:17 | |||||
| Jan 4, 2020 at 9:40 | history | answered | flox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |