would it be possible to shoot the moon with a missile from earth?
485271
yes, we call that a rocket ship!
88456
Sure why not? heck China is planning a Moon landing itself so I think America needs to start heading back up to the Moon before China does.\n\nNot to mention if we wanna get to Mars then we might wanna start building a station on the Moon so that we can accomplish our goal of getting to Mars.
283486
to imagine it, it would be very difficult. I suggest you experiment on it. Try using 3 ball, one for the sun, one for the earth, and another for the moon. Now do hte things you think. \nBut for me, the earth spins on its axis east to west and revolves the sun at east to west direction. EWhile the moon also revolves the earth at an east to west direction.
369818
nuke the site from space
701683
My opinion is that we would have to change course of an asteroid headed for Earth.  That means that we would have to detect it years in advance.  With enough notice, we could build a Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) system.  Actually we would have to build several and attach them to the asteroid and start pushing.   They would need to be refueled, so we have to make several visits.   If successful, a project like this would be a real boon to the space program, the economy, and scientific knowlege.
169193
you can achieve this with centrifugal force. it is called an orbit. the moon is very close to this point it reappears in nearly the same spot about 25 hours later!
1036071
If you could get one down there, it would likely melt before detonation. If you could solve that problem, then the result MIGHT depend on the yield of the weapon... but it would have to be a few million times stronger than today's strongest weapons, since the immense molten iron core of the earth handles pressures and forces far in excess of anything we will ever experience, and probably stronger than anything we could ever create in the next five thousand years. Nukes are only scary for fragile surface creatures in a relatively tiny area, not for fiery iron spheres that are the size of the moon.
965145
It's called a "captured orbit".  Use two oranges or balls. Hold one as the Earth in your left hand on a table.  It's going to stay still for demonstration purposes.  Hold the other orange with your right hand like the moon nearby and stick a toothpick in it so that the toothpick faces the "Earth" orange.  Now, just to see how the moon can be rotating AND keeping the same face toward the Earth, slowly begin to orbit the moon counter-clockwise around the Earth with the toothpick facing the Earth. Take the moon all the way around the earth, keeping the toothpick facing the Earth.  Do it again, slowly, and notice that the moon actually turns all the way around once, or, rotates, everytime it orbits all the way around the Earth. It takes the real moon 28 days to orbit or go all the way around the Earth, and 28 days to rotate all the way around it's own axis. Cool, huh?  : )  Took me like fifty years to figure that out.
589478
No. The Earth is too small from the vantage point of other planets and too big from the Moon to cause an eclipse.
251965
The bullet would disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere.\nExplode?  From a bullet?  Uh, no.
205891
Oh, this one is easy. \n\nGo out into space (probably just inside the asteroid belt), and build a 30 kilometer long linear accelerator made out of low impedance electromagnets. Attach it to a huge solar collector, a huge capacitor bank, and a transformer to transform whatever voltage the collector recieves voltage at, to just below the breakdown voltage of your capacitor or electromagnets (whichever is lower).\n\nAssemble a big paramagnetic rod out of something nice and massive (like iron), and coat it with a few thousand tons of lithium, or something similar in reactivity. The entire projectile should mass no less than ten thousand tons. \n\nCharge up your capacitor bank, point the accelerator at the Earth, and tell them to turn over control of all governments to you, or you're going to hit the Earth with a very large plasma projectile traveling at a very high rate of speed...
183992
yes. why not ?\n\nbut to built a rocket base there will cost a lot. bring oxygen and fuel from earth. will cost too much.\n\nnot only technical consideration but also economical consideration.
632929
I'm afraid not:\n\nKennedy was assassinated in November 1963, five and a half years before Armstrong walked on the Moon.
73086
One lunar distance is still a reasonable safe distance.  There have been some that have been a lot closer, within geostationary range (approx. 22,800 miles). Yes, any chunk of space rock will be preturb as it is more influenced by another gravitational mass (Earth, Moon, even the Sun and Jupiter), but by the orbital data on this particular rock and the angle it is coming in on, I doubt the influence would be remotely enough to put it on collision course with Earth for any time soon.
1145075
In order to send a satellite around the moon it would take a lot stronger rockets than currently used to bring them into orbit. Geostationary orbit is at a mere 36000km altitude, 1/11 of the distance to the moon. Satellites brought into geostationary don't have to overcome the escape velocity of earth.\n\nAny launch anomaly that could send a satellite around the moon has sufficient fuel and power left to send it into the wanted orbit.
514886
the moon won't blow up.  it is geologically inactive.  that means that its just a dead rock up there orbiting the earth.
20664
This could not be done on earth because of its liquid core, but perhaps it could be done on the solid moon.\n\nAt the surface of the earth, a ball (let's say of lead) would have a potential energy (PE - energy of position) relative to the center of gravity at the center of the earth.  As the ball is released into the theoretical hole, it would accelerate (like dropping it into a well) and some of the PE would be converted to kinetic energy (KE - energy of motion).  Because energy can neither be created nor destroyed, as the ball drops its speed increases and it has more KE but less PE.  The ball will continue to accelerate until it reaches the center of the earth but with less attraction from the earth's gravitational field because more and more of the earth's mass is now above (or behind) it.  At the very center of the earth the ball would have maximum KE but minimum PE.  Passing the center the process is reversed and the ball slows as it reaches the other side of the earth's surface, all the while reconverting KE to PE.  At the opposite surface the ball would have maximum PE (equal to the original PE but of opposite sign (say - instead of +).\n\nThe process could repeat forever if there is no wind resistance (perfect vacuum - like on the moon) and the hole was perfectly smooth exerting no friction as the earth spins on its axis constantly touching the ball to the sides of the hole.\n\nOf course this must be a mental exercise; but it is an interesting demonstration of physics and energy conversion in particular.  Good luck.