originalucifertoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world·2 months agowhat would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?message-squarearrow-up1189arrow-down11message-square72file-textfedilink
arrow-up1188arrow-down1message-squarewhat would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?originalucifertoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world·2 months agomessage-square72file-textfedilink
minus-squarecevnarrow-up10arrow-down0·2 months agolinkfedilinkI knew my crap science would get the real scientists in the comments, good point about the density. It would just sort of harmlessly splat.
minus-squarepeopleproblemsarrow-up5arrow-down0·2 months agolinkfedilinkNow hold on, I did my math wrong. It was far too late at night. I used C=300000 not 3*10^8. That gives us an impact energy, classically, of 5.37*10^41 J. So that is about 3 times the kinetic energy than the engery at rest of Sol. Sol is not at rest, further, we have non- insignificant factors at play here. Sol is orbiting Sagittarius A* at 250km/s. Additionally, we have the general relativistic relationship between Sol and our massive projectile. I’m going to work on modeling this, it got far more interesting.
I knew my crap science would get the real scientists in the comments, good point about the density. It would just sort of harmlessly splat.
Now hold on, I did my math wrong. It was far too late at night. I used C=300000 not 3*10^8.
That gives us an impact energy, classically, of 5.37*10^41 J.
So that is about 3 times the kinetic energy than the engery at rest of Sol.
Sol is not at rest, further, we have non- insignificant factors at play here.
Sol is orbiting Sagittarius A* at 250km/s. Additionally, we have the general relativistic relationship between Sol and our massive projectile.
I’m going to work on modeling this, it got far more interesting.