Could the moon ever be pushed from orbit, like in 'Moonfall'?

Feb 5, 2022
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Hey, just FYI I think the mass of the moon (81 million tons) is off... I think it's WAY bigger.

For instance the Burj Khalifa is 2.2 million tons... And I'm pretty sure the moon is bigger than 37 buildings... Even if it is a massive building it's not THAT massive, haha
 
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I think this factoid is coming from weightofstuff.com where they wrote: "We can use the same mass to find the weight of the moon which is estimated as 7.3477×1022 Kgs. This is equivalent to 73.5 million metric tons"

They accidentally missed the exponent because it SHOULD be 7.3477 × 10^22 which is WAY bigger.
 
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