![]() ![]() If the fragments are hitting each other, they are going to be pounded into much smaller rocks in a hurry. Problem 1: Rock isn't very strong compared to it's mass. I have a few problems with SevenEves, but don't know how to attack the problem in terms of its physics. ![]() My gut level reaction (my physics intuition) insists that if the impact resulted in a mutually gravitationally bound cluster, it would relatively quickly reform into 'scrambled moon'. (Reference that a week later, it's still just a cluster of large rocks.)Īs the rocks interact they divide into smaller rocks.Ībout two years later the world ends in a "White Sky" Debris from the moon is hitting the atmosphere at a rate that the upper atmosphere is glowing white hot. The moon is left in 7 major chunks that are still gravitationally bound. In the novel, some agency disrupts the moon. Based on comments, would the moderators please move this to Astronomy.SE? ![]()
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