If the Moon were replaced with some of our planets

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If the Moon were replaced with some of our planets
yeti dynamics

Published on Jan 10, 2013

In order show:

Mars
Venus
Neptune
Uranus
Jupiter
Saturn

Mercury is intentionally left off as it isn't Much bigger than our Moon (and hence is boring)

Everything is correctly scaled. The Axial tilts are not particularly accurate.
the moon that flies in front of Saturn is Tethys. It is Tiny. but *very* close


Dione would be on a collision course, it's orbital distance from Saturn is Nearly identical to our Moon's orbit around Earth

Titan, which is Larger than our Moon, is outside the orbit of Dione

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More at Youtube link.
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[Guilded Lilly]

1. Truly boggles the mind. The universe always stuns me to silence.

[krispos42]

2. Very cool

Oh, how we can dream....


Ignoring the massive changes to our planet it would entail!

[Mike Nelson]

3. The gas giants...

… would make us their moon. We'd likely pull apart, but might survive in some scenarios.

[genxlib]

4. Cool, but..

I think if I was going to go to that trouble to animate a video, I could find a better backdrop. The random commercial road complete with power lines and road noise just takes the charm out of this video for me.

I get that it advertised the animators sign but I think a better backdrop with a logo would accomplish the same thing. Music instead of the road noise would help too.

Everyone's a critic.

[lunatica]

6. Maybe a cityscape or remote mountains.

[rock]

5. With Saturn or Jupiter in it's stead

Wouldn't our tides be monstrous?

[defacto7]

7. More than just tides would be monstrous.

[Fla Dem]

8. Exactly what I was thinking. The gravitational pull would probably destroy the Earth.

[Wolf Frankula]

9. With Saturn or Jupiter in its stead

The Earth would be a moon of Saturn or Jupiter.

Wolf