Who doesn't love disco balls? The bigger, the better, right?
So, bear with me here; has the thought of our Moon being a giant disco ball ever hit your mind?
Well, If we turned the Moon into a giant disco ball, instead of diffusely reflecting sunlight onto all of us, a mirror tiled Moon would be remembered as a spectrum. There would be tiny flashes in the sky 0.1 per cent as bright as the regular sun from the Earth's surface. Granted, that would be quite a giant disco ball. The moon clocks in with a diameter of 3,474km, which is getting on for around 2 million times larger than the average disco ball we have on Earth, but it's quite an intriguing prospect, isn't it? Even though the Earth, Sun and Moon are not ideal for disco ball effects, if our disco ball moon were closer and orbited around the Earth less than 450km as far as the international space station, it would be torn apart by gravitational forces. Well, the rotation of the Moon and its reflection earth would start to look like an excellent lunar party decoration. Would we all be involved in nightly parties as to the sunset, or would the constant bombardment of glittering reflections of light all get too much? However, for the sake of investigation, let's not allow this disco ball moon not to be torn apart and will enable it to spin in the sky.
We would occasionally get glittery reflections of a dimmer image of the sun from the surface of the Earth because any potential moon-sized disco ball would contain 3012 mirrored tiles, each 100-150km squared and 10km thick! You will be able to see the reflection of the Earth in our sky! It would feel like a mirror having the width of the Moon orbiting the Earth.
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