In the case that the position of Moon is between Sun and Earth.
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It depends on how this change came about. If moon added mass (to a value > earth mass) then force between earth-moon also increases. So we have much larger tides, probably indundating much of the land. But we both keep coorbiting the sun. \nIf the change was caused by moon being closer to sun, then we're pretty much uninfluenced by moon, and tides are solar-only, having a large effect on shore life but not so disastrous to land-dwellers. \nIf the force just increased without any reason but still followed the inverse-square law, the moon, with its current solar-orbit velocity, moves too slowly to maintain the same orbit. Instead it would be at an aphelion (maximum distance point) of an elliptical solar orbit and would follow its new orbit. Since your condition says earth is further away from the sun it would not collide with us.
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the moon does not rotate.  The same side faces the earth all the time.  The acceleration = 0.  Speed = 0. Period = infinite.
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The moon's gravity causes tides, which is not quite the same thing. A "tidal wave," or tsunami, is caused by an earthquake.\nBecause distance is an central factor in gravity, the part of the global ocean that is closest to the moon at any given moment will bulge outward ever so slightly toward the moon. On the opposite side of the earth, the water farthest away from the moon will bulge in the opposite direction, being less influenced by that same gravity. Those two regions will then experience high tide. Halfway between them will be the two areas of low tide.\nAs the earth rotates, each part of the surface eventually passes through each of these gravitational regions, thus experiencing two high tides and two low tides each day.\nThe sun has some influence on tides as well, but its distance from the earth lessens its impact. However, when the sun, moon and earth are in alignment, the combined forces result in unusually high and low tidal patterns.
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I want to add more:\n1) Due to the distance to the Moon relative to the size of our planet, it doesn't really matter from which point on Earth you are looking at our natural satellite. You will see virtually the same part of the surface.\n2) The reason the Moon rotates around its axis at about the same time it rotates around the Earth is because it is tidally locked with the Earth. Tidal lock worked for billions of years to achieve the present effect, but it's still not perfect: the Moon slightly advances or gets behind in its axial rotation relative to its revolution around the Earth. So, over time, we are actually able to see around 57% of its surface, rather than just 50%.\n3) The Earth is not close enought to the Sun to be tidally locked by its gravity (even Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, isn't). So that's why the Sun-Earth relation is different.
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Apparently, lesser sunlight will get in. That will cause some imbalance on earth.
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Let's do a thought experiment.Imagine that you had a giant compass and drew a circle about 12 feet in diameter on your school parking lot. You are going to be the earth so you stand in the center where the giant stick pin of the compass went. Pick a friend to be the moon. She is going to walk along the path of the  circle and you are going to face her at all times and observe carefully what you see. First have her look in one direction as she marches along the path - like maybe looking at the school building or maybe facing north. Make sure her entire body faces the same way at all times. In other words, she moves in a circle but does not rotate her body. Notice that you see her from the front at times, then the left side, back, right and front again. Now. Compare this to the moon. If the moon didn't rotate we would see all sides of it during the course of its almost one month journey around the earth. In other words, if the moon did NOT rotate we WOULD be able to see the back side.  Now, have your friend do the same as before but this time have her face you at all times so you cannot see her back - only her front . Now. Ask her what she saw in addition to you and she will say that part of the time she saw the school house and part of the time she was even facing away from it and finally ended up facing the school again. She faced first north, then east, then south, then west and finally north again. In other words, she turned in a complete circle while her face was turned toward you at all times. This is what the moon does. One face of the moon is turned toward the earth at all times. In order for that to be true it must rotate, just like your friend. The secret is that it rotates on its axis at the exact same speed as it revolves in its path about the earth. The reason for this behavior is that the moon is captured by the earth's gravity.
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The moon is a very peaceful world...  Of course, there isn't anything alive on it...  So to me world peace - since most life lives at some level of competition - means the absence of life.  Hence, the dead are expected to rest in peace...
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it is referring to the fact that the moon's gravitational pull affects the waves and tides.
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What you are seeing is the portion of the moon illuminated by the sun that is visible on earth on that particular day.  When the moon is full, you are seeing the full view of the side of the moon that is in full sunlight.  When it is in half-moon phase, you are seeing half of the side that is lit, and half of the dark side.  When it is a new moon, the side facing earth is dark.  Try to keep in mind that, even though the same side of the moon is always facing earth, the moon makes an orbit around the earth in about 28 days--AND ONE REVOLUTION ON ITS OWN AXIS--during which it will go through the phases that you observe from earth.  I have found that making a model helps to understand this.  Use a flashlight for the sun.  Then get a globe for the earth, and a styrofoam ball or a tennis ball for the moon.  You can lay the flashlight on a table or chair, or get someone to hold it for you.  Now focus on the moon making its revolution around the earth, while always facing the earth the same way.  You will see that as the moon circles the earth, the part that is illuminated by the sun changes, resulting in the phases that you see.
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what? I don't think the moon appears stationary since it travels across the sky and goes through phases.\nWhat?
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1.  Longer shadows\n2.  The moon's gravitational pull and the sun's gravity also\n3.  The sun\n4.  counterclockwise, west, east\n5.  D\n6.  The Earth's Rotation\n7.  The earth is at a slant compared to it's solar revolution, so the earth recieves more sunlight in different areas, and the earth's solar revolution isn't a perfect circle, AND the earth wobbles\n8.  The sun's reflection causes the moon to light up, and so the sun's position determin's the shape.\n9.  the earth and the sun and the moon have to line up in a linear fashion, perfectly, not just good enough for a full moon
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A full moon is simply fully visible.  Usually, the earth is between the sun and the moon to some degree.  The curved shadow on the moon is the shadow of the earth.  A full moon is when the moon is slightly to the side of the earth and the sun is shinging on the entire surface with no shadow of the earth on it.\n\nSee the link below for a good explanation.
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It's relative to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, called the Ecliptic.
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The Earth is round.\nObviously at lower latitudes you view the moon from a different angle than what you would at higher latitudes.\nSo that at the equater the moon when rising would look like a bowl from that angle in that phase.
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Cancer, ruled by the moon :)
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The phases of the moon are the same around the world. What varies is the rise and set time. The US Naval Observatory is a great site for this.
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in the ocean, it would have a better view, pretty ocean life and cool fish, the moon just has rocks