Originally Posted by
hurleyfor3
A body's gravitational pull has nothing to do with its rotation (and everything to do with its mass).
I'm not sure everything would collide with everything else, but the bigger concern is the half of the earth that faces the sun would become intolerably hot, and the half the faces the moon intolerably cold, as if its sun got turned off. Mercury and the moon are like this, and nobody lives on either, so what does that tell you?
Never knew that Mercury didn't spin. Do all the other planets spin?
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