DarkSaint85
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Originally posted by zopzop
Yup. It was Hercules and Sunspot (the former New Mutant). The Earth is like 4 times the size of the Moon or something so I'd bet either of those two could stop the moon from rotating. And if they can, then everyone on that list except Thing should be able to pull it off.
The Earth has ~80 times the mass of the Moon.
The Earth is also rotating at ~30x the speed of the Moon,normally.
Momentum = mass x velocity.
So in short, if the Moon was rotating ~240 times faster than it normally does, then the Moon feat is more impressive, all things being equal.
Now we know it normally takes ~30 days to do 1 rotation (i.e. a month). Speeding this up by 240x, means it would take 3 hours to do one rotation.
It obviously was much faster than 240x, which means it had more momentum than a 'normal' Earth, a lot more.
So Hercules and Sunspot, combined, didn't do as impressive a feat as Billy.