How much force does it take to push the moon?

The total thrust we would require to push the moon itself, assuming no other gravity gets involved (such as ripping it away from Jupiter, etc) is 6.6475294 x 10^13 rockets, or 664,752,940,000,000,000,000 rockets full of fuel, pushing it on one side, at the same time, expending all of their fuel instantly (instead of …

Can you push the moon?

The problem would be that the Moon is a HUGE payload, but as you said ignore the implications of cost, it’s ok, it can be done. If your rocket uses an efficient fuel it’d be like 10\% of the Moon’s mass. Of course this sounds like a fairytale.

How much force is needed to escape the moon?

List of escape velocities

Location	Relative to	System escape, Vte (km/s)
On Mercury	Mercury’s gravity	~ 20.3
On Venus	Venus’s gravity	17.8
On Earth	Earth’s gravity	16.6
On the Moon	The Moon’s gravity	2.42

How much force does it take to move the moon out of orbit?

Originally Answered: How much force would it take to push the moon out of earth’s orbit? You need to accelerate the Moon from about 1 km/s (3600 kph) to about 1.5 km/s (4800 kph) in order to set it free from the Earth. So, you need to change its momentum by 3.7×10²⁵ N s.

How many nukes would it take to move the Moon?

Here’s a piece from Gizmodo figuring that you’d need 9,000 bombs of the 15,000 kiloton “Castle Bravo” class to obliterate the entire surface of the moon.

How long would it take the Moon to crash into Earth?

This is manifestly impossible without shattering the Moon, but in that case, the Moon would indeed hit the Earth. The time for the impact would be about 1/4 of the Moons current orbital period, which is to say about a week. That’s not quite 1.5 hours (NoAnswer’s answer) but also not a week (Steve Linton’s answer).

How many nukes would it take to move the moon?

How much energy would it take to stop the Moon from crashing?

The amount of energy needed to stop the moon and sending it crashing into the earth is about 3.7×10 28 joules. You would need about half that to accelerate the moon out of earth orbit.

How many joules does it take to change the Moon’s orbit?

If placed on the moon, each booster could produce 5×10 12 joules of energy toward changing the moon’s orbit. This means that it would take 6 quadrillion (that is 6 million billion) Saturn V first stage boosters to crash the moon into the earth.

How far away is the Moon from Earth?

Currently, the moon is 385,000 km away from the earth, and is moving at a speed of 1020 m/s. In order to crash the moon into earth, you would have to slow it down to a stop.

What type of force is the push on the Earth?

When the earth pushes on you to send you into the air after jumping, you also push on the earth with the same force. But forces are different from accelerations. A force Fis a push or pull on an object.