Quoting Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...>:
> On Monday 15 November 2004 10:36, Chris Bates wrote:
> [more moons & planets & orbits & tides]
> > different, perhaps you should have no moons? A world without tides and
> > without the moon at night would be interesting. :)
>
> I've thought about that, too. But, if the Earth didn't have the moon, we'd
> probably have 10 hour days, very high winds, all sorts of "unearthly"
> weather, and probably far far more meteor craters. Though, perhaps Jupiter
> would have been enough to filter out the meteors.
I don't see how the Moon would deflect any considerable proportion of potential
impactors. Am I missing something?
Andreas