A lot of meteor impacts happened during the early days of the Solar System,
when there was a lot more material left over from the
parent gas/dust cloud. Though having a massive gas giant or two at a large
distance from the Earth certainly helps to filter out the
"big boys" from the inner Solar System!
Mike
PS A worls without the Moon at night would be ***fabulous!***
> > > 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