Could the moon be the comet that wiped out the dinosaurs ?

Question

e.g hit the earth bounced off and went into orbit

Answer 1

The moon cannot be a comet, nor could it be in the past

Answer 2

So many mistakes...where to start? The Moon is millions of times larger (more massive) than any comet. The Moon is made of rock, comets are mostly ice. The Moon has existed for at least 4 billion years; the dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. Objects in space don't just "bounce off" each other: they contain massive amounts of potential energy, and any contact leads to massive explosions which are enough to destroy the objects. The surfaces of the Moon and the moons of other planets are littered with craters resulting from such explosions.

Answer 3

no

remember ...life finds the way

Answer 4

no way. the moon was formed way before the existance of dinosaurs. the asteroid, not the comet, that wiped out the dinasour population was about the size of a bus, and it crashed into northern africa. it released a cloud of dust that covered earth, and blocket the sun's light to an extent. the asteroid was a lot smaller than the moon. if it was the moon, the earth would have been knocked out of orbit, and the moon and the earth would've been destroyed.

Answer 5

MRR Nut has it.

The (whatever it was but it was huge) that collided with the earth to knock off enough stuff to form the moon was waaaay before any life of any sort formed on the earth.

In fact we may be lucky...some postulate that the moon was an important part of the formation of life on earth (I forget the details but something to do with the tides pushing water around).

Answer 6

The impact that produced the global climate changes, catastrophic ones, happened 65 million years ago. The mass of the impactor was such that it was likely about 10 miles wide. It left a crater in the earth, near Mexico.

The Moon is 2,000 miles wide. The planetary collision that result in it forming out of a good deal of the mixed debris, involved an object hitting the Earth that was in the size range of Mars, and that happened about 4.45 BILLION years ago.

The two events were hugely different, in every way and were separated in time by over 4 billion years.

Answer 7

What was the moon and the earth hit another planet. Then it split into two pieces and now the smaller part (moon) orbits the earth.

Answer 8

No. Given the shape of the moon, it would be practically impossible to land on Earth and jump back to space. The moon is roughly the size of Australia, and such a force hitting the Earth would more and likely break the planet with Earth's gravitational pull.

Answer 9

The collision of the object with earth that formed the moon occurred long before the extinction of the dinosaurs.  There was not any life as we know it at the time of the collision.  It happened during the formation of the solar system.

Doug

Answer 10

na the moon was believed to be two planets colliding together it will not move uintil a very long time

Answer 11

the moon is not a  comet

gez  read your own question for your answer

Answer 12

No way