SciShow: What If Earth Picked Up a Second Moon?

Teacher or professor: SciShow
Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: Thanks to Oribel for sponsoring this episode. Go to http://bit.ly/SciShowMarbleRun and use code “SCISHOW15” for 15% off on your wall toy or extension sets. Or get it on Amazon -  https://www.amazon.com/ORIBEL-VertiPlay-Marble-Learning-Stick/dp/B07VSLB9M9 Make Science fun with VertiPlay STEM Marble Run! We owe a lot to our moon. Beautiful moonlit walks, higher tides, and regular seasons - all are made possible by our little rocky friend. But what would happen if we picked up a second moon? Thanks to Dr. Neil Comins at the University of Maine for his orbital mechanics expertise and help with this episode! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Correspondence with Dr. Neil Comins https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312673352 https://www.universetoday.com/92148/what-if-the-earth-had-two-moons/ http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/our-solar-system/37-our-solar-system/the-moon/the-moon-and-the-earth/38-what-would-happen-if-earth-had-more-than-one-moon-intermediate https://phys.org/news/2011-12-earth-moons.html Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tide_St._Simons,_GA_2018.webm https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/78349/the-view-from-the-top https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tidalwaves1.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LRO_WAC_North_Pole_Mosaic_(PIA14024).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arctic_from_low_orbiting_satellite_Suomi_NPP.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_2006_RH120_orbit_around_Earth_20060401-20071101.gif https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/image_card_4x3_ratio/public/thumbnails/image/iss055e012690.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-captures-epic-earth-image


Click here to view video on YouTube.