Re: CONCULTURE: First thoughts on Ayeri calendar system

On Monday 15 November 2004 12:51, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> 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
If I understand correctly (and that's a big if), the moon filters out
impactors by being in the way. It is rather big. The moon & Jupiter together
are probably why we didn't have more large impacts in our evolutionary
history.

-S


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