Most of the planets in our solar system have more than one natural satellite. For instance, Jupiter, the largest planet has 67 moons, Saturn-62 moons, Neptune-14 moons and even our close neighbour, Mars has 2 moons.
Our planet has just one moon orbiting it. What if we had a second one? would it be fun or disastrous?
Well, astronomers believe that having two moons would have two major effects on our planet. The first is the instability of the "Tides" (the rise and fall in sea level). It is caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Sun and Moon. So adding a second moon would increase the rate of the tides. At some times. the sea level would be so high (you would think its a tsunami) it would be extremely difficult to travel by water. Living near a beach would be a bad idea too. At other times, there wont be any noticeable change in the water level.
The other major effect is that we would experience more solar eclipses than usual. . .imagine everywhere just becoming dark often.
Other effect which is minor is that we would have nights been brighter than usual. Just like adding a second torch in a dark room. So it would be more easier for night creatures to navigate, and more easier for their prey to detect them...lol.
Now i wonder how it would feel like to live in a planet like Jupiter with 67 moons!!

chiefolododo:
or two suns

Ramos16:
It would be highly inappropriate to conclude that it would be all bad, talking about the increase in tide level or its instability might not be totally correct, remember that the earth was created by God (or nature if you like) and balance are always made in creation, always. So that, if there are grasses then something would depend on these grasses and the grasses on other things, there is always a balance. If we have two moons and God or nature as the case may be wants our kind of live on earth it would create a balance..

RobinHez:
our planet was created with one moon, adding a second would cause inbalance...some planets have no moon at all., giving them a moon would be catastrophic... it's all adaptability of the planets to their conditions

chiefolododo:
or two suns

Ramos16:


You seem not to get my point, if a particular specie of animal goes extinct there is every likelihood that some other will follow, or another specie would become dominant, just to keep the cosmic balance, like newtons third law, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and energy would neither be created nor destroyed but can only change form

Ramos16:


The earth does not have its own sun, it shares the one sun with rest of the planets and planetary bodies

RobinHez:
true...but understand that the sun is just one of over billions of stars in our galaxy,(there are more galaxies too) some of those stars are bigger than the sun,only that they are not meant for our solar system

Ramos16:


I am not sure but it might be impossible for two suns to be that close, remember that the gravitationa forcel increases as the size of the planetary bodies increase and also increases inversely as the square of their distance of separation. F=(Gmm)/r²

So for two bodies to be "suns" they would be really heavy, and for the earth to feature both they would have to be close, increasing the gravitational pull between them, hence one of two things would occur, either one collapse into the other or they would suck up other bodies, the earlier is the most probable.

RobinHez:
peeps are never interested in these kind of things

sinaj:


lol

Am Interested in this kind of things

I love Science :-/

RobinHez:
peeps are never interested in these kind of things

lalasticlala:

put direct link to the particular page you got this from let me see it first.. thanks

Feraz:
There are peeps interested in things like these. . .

CC blackjewelry, johnydon22, kslibb...they are many just that they haven't seen this thread...

chiefolododo:
or two suns

MicroBox:
The higher the tide the more efficiency our power plant would be..... Tidal Power Plant

Ramos16:


I am not sure but it might be impossible for two suns to be that close, remember that the gravitationa forcel increases as the size of the planetary bodies increase and also increases inversely as the square of their distance of separation. F=(Gmm)/r²

So for two bodies to be "suns" they would be really heavy, and for the earth to feature both they would have to be close, increasing the gravitational pull between them, hence one of two things would occur, either one collapse into the other or they would suck up other bodies, the earlier is the most probable.

Feraz:
There are peeps interested in things like these. . .

CC blackjewelry, johnydon22, kslibb...they are many just that they haven't seen this thread...

johnydon22:


I think he is right most nairalanders are not interested in things like this thats why the science section is far less frequented than the sahara desert and its topics rearly hit the FP.

For the Op. . . I think he didn't consider the Mass of the Moons compared to their respective planets. The mass of the moon compared to earth is 1/81 compared to most planets that have moons 3/10,000 mass compared to the planet...

Of course with a close relationship of mass between the earth and the moon hence the effects the gravitational pull of the moon has on the earth add another moon of similar mass to this equation, it will be catastrophic like your Op pointed out and may lead to annihilation or possible extinction of life.

I think the earth can handle another moon of far less mass but with increased activities.

RobinHez:
cc: Lalasticlala, Ishilove

johnydon22:


I think he is right most nairalanders are not interested in things like this thats why the science section is far less frequented than the sahara desert and its topics rearly hit the FP.

For the Op. . . I think he didn't consider the Mass of the Moons compared to their respective planets. The mass of the moon compared to earth is 1/81 compared to most planets that have moons 3/10,000 mass compared to the planet...

Of course with a close relationship of mass between the earth and the moon hence the effects the gravitational pull of the moon has on the earth add another moon of similar mass to this equation, it will be catastrophic like your Op pointed out and may lead to annihilation or possible extinction of life.

I think the earth can handle another moon of far less mass but with increased activities.

DProDG, Davien, pr0ton, menesheh, finofoya, 5minsmadness, frank317 and others

lalasticlala:


put direct link to the particular page you got this from let me see it first.. thanks

johnydon22:


Actually there are star systems where two stars are so close together that they touch and in some cases share a common envelop. . . It's called Contact Binary system

Ramos16:

actually contact binaries are really small bodies, they are mostly small asteriods and comets, nt a star as big and powerful as the sun, their size range from a few hundred meters to a few tens of kilometers, nothing like the sun

lalasticlala:


put direct link to the particular page you got this from let me see it first.. thanks