P2 7 Take Back the Moon - A Minecraft Parody of Tidal Forces

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the Minecraft Moon added in a temporary April Fool’s update, and
use the parameters in the game alongside a new Hill radius regime to find a mass of this Moon to
be M_Moon ≈ 10¹² kg. We find a formula describing the tidal interaction between this moon and a
flat semi-infinite plane at the apparent distance in the Minecraft ’snapshot’