What would happen if the moon were hit by an asteroid?

What would happen if the moon were hit by an asteroid?

What would happen if a large asteroid did strike the moon? It would take another nearly moon-sized object to actually move the moon, Clark Chapman, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute told Popsci. If that were to happen, the moon wouldn’t survive the impact.

What would happen to Earth if the moon got destroyed?

Without the moon’s gravity holding the Earth in place, the tilt of our home planet’s axis would probably shift drastically over time. Earth could go from no tilt with virtually no seasons, to a drastic tilt with extreme seasonal weather changes and ice ages in just a few hundred thousand years, Siegler adds.

What would happen if the moon dies?

It is the pull of the Moon’s gravity on the Earth that holds our planet in place. Without the Moon stabilising our tilt, it is possible that the Earth’s tilt could vary wildly. It would move from no tilt (which means no seasons) to a large tilt (which means extreme weather and even ice ages).

What would happen if an asteroid hit the Moon?

An asteroid that large striking the Moon would release a large amount of energy and it probably would eject some of the moon rock into space, however I would guess that the bits would be quite small, so if they happened to be going in the right direction to hit the Earth they wouldn’t cause too much damage.

What will happen if the Moon is destroyed?

If it ends up getting hit by a very massive asteroid, the large explosion from the impact could destroy the Moon. Probably the immediate effect Earth will experience following the destruction of the Moon is multiple impact events.

What would happen if an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit Earth?

(Intermediate) If an asteroid the mass of the on the one that possibly caused the extinction of the dinosaurs struck the moon would the material expelled from the crater possibly reach earth and would it create massive meteorite impacts. The asteroid which may have wiped out the dinosaurs was probably somewhere between 2 and 10km in size.

How dangerous are chunks from the Moon to Earth?

The chunks from the Moon, on the other hand, will approach Earth at a much slower speed. However, this does not automatically mean they’re not dangerous. These large fragments can still cause a lot of damage to populated towns and cities across the planet.