Our moon is quite a major factor for how our life is on earth, the ocean tides, visibility of the night, our seasons and more. Planets in our solar system like mars and Jupiter have more than a moon, what if the earth had two moons, let’s see how would life be different on earth…

Physicist and Astronomer, Neil F. Comins delved into this thoughty idea and his theories on what would happen to the earth are quite interesting.

First, lets talk about how our moon was formed, scientists say our moon was formed when a ‘Mars-Sized’ object rammed into our earth and debris from the impact was hurled into space and started orbiting the earth until it eventually became the moon we know today. This isn’t something we’d want to see happen a second time though.

Neil F. Comins takes a disastrous path in his book about how the second moon (which he called LUNA) would be formed. While Luna settles down, the gravitational pull of the new moon would create tides 8times greater than the one we have now, which would make living close to sea shores harder, sea travel would be harder too. There would be numerous volcanic eruptions and tsunamis which would ultimately lead to the extinction of aquatic life.
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Once the new moon settled, we would have brighter nights due to two full moons, there would be shorter dark nights, nocturnal animals would have to evolve and get smarter as their prey would develop new camouflage abilities to hide from them. Humans would have to develop new ways to live ashore as buildings close to the shore would be destroyed by the high tides. Eventually, the two moons would collide and we would have one moon again, and the resulting debris would rain down on earth causing another mass extinction and new life on earth would start again.

Though his book is just an hypothesis, Scientist say earth usually has more than one moon when small asteroids (about a metre in diameter) orbit the earth for some weeks and eventually go their way again without any effects on the earth. But who’s to say the earth cannot have two full moons, after all planets in our solar system like Jupiter, Saturn and Mars have more than one. Thanks for reading, and dont forget to drop your comments.

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