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I know it would be poosible, but would it be economical to nudge small asteroids (aka annoying space debris) together to create a moon for Mars? You'd nudge them into the desired place in orbit first, crash the largest togethe the gravity takes over. If you use iron ones the moon won't have to be as big to stablise the planets tilt?
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do you mean its orbit? The tilt is fine, I wouldn't mess with it. If it was a large moon (earth to earth moon proportion,) then it eventually might start an aerodynamo. But that wouldn't happen for a million years, if ever, and it would be quite a lot of money for very little profit. People would be more likely just to mine the asteroids of their metals and leave them in the asteroid belt.
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Moons are very useful. They create tides and with enough tidal flexing Mars' core might heat up again.
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firstly, I would just like to point out how we're butting heads all over the place-:D. How big of a moon do you mean? Earth-moon ratio? There's so little benefit for maybe 100 bn dollars. If we want a good base, we could just make phobos or deimos into a space station. To make a decent sized moon around mars, we would need either A) ceres or B) about 1/2 of the non-ceres asteroid belt mass
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Nah, probably wouldn't be economical. Ceres is to big to move.
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I know. And the same goes for that amount of mass, no matter what the size(s). Also, a large part would probably fall on to mars itself, and the moon would probably take a very very very long time to form.
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