Well, assuming that you could move the moon without it’s gravity pulling the Earth out of orbit, there’s no reason why Earth’s orbit would change.
Even taking into account the displacement that removal of the moon’s mass would make on the Earth’s orbit though, it wouldn’t make a significant orbital change. Maybe we’d have to change the century leap-days.
More important is the cessation of the tides, which would wipe out a great deal of ocean life.
Sorry, Danae, your idea impinges on the intellectual property of ITC Entertainment in its similarity to the entertainment program “Space: 1999” in which the moon is used as a vessel upon which humanity travels to other star systems.
Well, assuming that you could move the moon without it’s gravity pulling the Earth out of orbit, there’s no reason why Earth’s orbit would change.
Even taking into account the displacement that removal of the moon’s mass would make on the Earth’s orbit though, it wouldn’t make a significant orbital change. Maybe we’d have to change the century leap-days.
More important is the cessation of the tides, which would wipe out a great deal of ocean life.