originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agowhat would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?message-squaremessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1180arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1179arrow-down1message-squarewhat would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarecevn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 months agoI 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-squarepeopleproblems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoNow 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.