User blog comment:MetalShadow272/The Missing Links of Sonic History./@comment-3353653-20110707084326/@comment-477304-20110710161754

Well the moon does affect the tides, but I was thinking that the change in mass and the huge impact of the explosion would cause the moon to lose orbit and fall to earth but because of the moon's gravity, the planet would be ripped apart before the moon ever made impact. I could be wrong of course, I'm no scientist