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Re: CONCULTURE: First thoughts on Ayeri calendar system

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 16, 2004, 11:16
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