what would happen if the moon crashed on the earth

Question: what would happen if the moon crashed on the earth
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  crash,
  earth,
  future,
  moon,
  space
Asked by poobuddy0000000 to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 13 Mar 2012.
- Sam Vinko answered on 13 Mar 2012:
  
  We’d all be wiped out pretty dramatically. Remember the meteorite with supposedly made the dinosaurs disappear was much much smaller than the moon!
- Ben Smart answered on 13 Mar 2012:
  
  The moon and earth would be pretty much destroyed. We would certainly all be dead. Actually what would probably happen is that the earth and the moon would squash together and form a new planet, although they might also just break apart and create a new asteroid belt in the solar system.
  
  Thankfully it doesn’t seem likely that the moon is going to crash into the earth any time soon. In fact the earth and the moon are actually moving apart by a few millimetres each year.
- Elizabeth Pearson answered on 19 Mar 2012:
  
  All life would be destroyed for one. The atmosphere would heat up enormously, possibly boil the ocean. The earth’s axis would probably be knocked off a bit as well. Tahnkfully that’s not likely. The moon is actually moving away.

Question: what would happen if the moon crashed on the earth