What if the Moon Didn’t Exist is a collection of speculative articles about different versions of Earth, published in book form in 1993. They were originally published in Astronomy magazine. The individual scenarios are:
- Solon – Earth without a Moon
- Lunholm – Moon closer to Earth
- Petiel – Earth with less mass
- Urania – Earth’s axis tilted like that of Uranus
- Granstar – More massive sun
- Antar – Effects if a supernova exploded near Earth
- Cerberon – Star passing through the solar system
- Diablo – Black Hole passing through the Earth
- Seeing the world via infrared
- Effects of ozone layer depletion
Famous quotes containing the words moon and/or exist:
“Seen from the moon we are all the same size.”
—Multatuli [Eduard Douwer Dekker] (1820–1887)
“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)