• Question: Will the moon always be here ?

    Asked by dail to James, Joe, Olivia on 19 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      Hi Dail,

      Yep, the moon will always be with us, which is vital because it controls our tides and hopefully we will soon really harness them as a source of reneweable power!

      The only way we could lose the moon would be if it got hit by a really large asteroid, however such an asteroid would be more likely to hit us, so I doubt it would happen. Because the moon has negligible atmosphere, you can still see all its impact crators from previous impacts, because they haven’t been worn away by the weather,

    • Photo: Joe Spencer

      Joe Spencer answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      The moon is in a pretty stable orbit, which is good as we don’t want it to crash into us. But it could be dislodged if a big enough asteroid or comet hit it.

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