Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Have Stars
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#2I wonder what happens to the planets in the solar system when a rogue planets gets sucked into the star (sun) ?
I mean, yeah it'd be bad if a rogue planet smashed into us, or even came close enough to mess with our gravitational pool (or the moons). but I imagine if an earth sized or bigger slammed into the sun, that we'd feel the effects of this.
massive solar flare roasting our planet alive? a shower of ejecta from the collision that we pass through? it changes the mass of the sun in a significant way that changes the pull it has on the planets around it?
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#3I wonder what happens to the planets in the solar system when a rogue planets gets sucked into the star (sun) ? I mean, yeah it'd be bad if a rogue planet smashed into us, or even came close enough to mess with our gravitational pool (or the moons). but I imagine if an earth sized or bigger slammed into the sun, that we'd feel the effects of this. massive solar flare roasting our planet alive? a shower of ejecta from…
Not much would happen:
https://gizmodo.com/what-a-giant-solar-flare-would-look-like...
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#4I wonder what happens to the planets in the solar system when a rogue planets gets sucked into the star (sun) ? I mean, yeah it'd be bad if a rogue planet smashed into us, or even came close enough to mess with our gravitational pool (or the moons). but I imagine if an earth sized or bigger slammed into the sun, that we'd feel the effects of this. massive solar flare roasting our planet alive? a shower of ejecta from…
That's very, very unlikely. A rogue planet passing near a star wouldn't crash into the star, it would follow a hyperbolic trajectory out of the system.
Re: Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Have Stars
#5I wonder what happens to the planets in the solar system when a rogue planets gets sucked into the star (sun) ? I mean, yeah it'd be bad if a rogue planet smashed into us, or even came close enough to mess with our gravitational pool (or the moons). but I imagine if an earth sized or bigger slammed into the sun, that we'd feel the effects of this. massive solar flare roasting our planet alive? a shower of ejecta from…
I haven't done the math, but I'd be mildly surprised if there were any dangerous effects. The Sun is just so big relative to even the largest planets, and much much denser as well; I suspect that most of the ejecta thrown up by a collision would be pulled back down the gravity well before reaching Earth orbit, and the mass of a planet is so small compared to the Sun that I doubt it would alter its gravity well appreciably.
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#6I can't help but think of how the various Star Trek series handled rogue planets... and then later on how IRL science delved into rogue planets as more of a reality than previously realized.
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#7If this is recent information, how does it bear on dark matter, i.e. machos? An excellent read, btw.
Re: Space Is Full of Planets, and Most of Them Don't Even Have Stars
#8I wonder what happens to the planets in the solar system when a rogue planets gets sucked into the star (sun) ? I mean, yeah it'd be bad if a rogue planet smashed into us, or even came close enough to mess with our gravitational pool (or the moons). but I imagine if an earth sized or bigger slammed into the sun, that we'd feel the effects of this. massive solar flare roasting our planet alive? a shower of ejecta from…
Watch the film “Melancholia” for a dark take on the effect of a rogue planet.
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#9I can't help but think of how the various Star Trek series handled rogue planets... and then later on how IRL science delved into rogue planets as more of a reality than previously realized.
Could you provide an example? I don’t recall such an episode.
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#10I wonder what happens to the planets in the solar system when a rogue planets gets sucked into the star (sun) ? I mean, yeah it'd be bad if a rogue planet smashed into us, or even came close enough to mess with our gravitational pool (or the moons). but I imagine if an earth sized or bigger slammed into the sun, that we'd feel the effects of this. massive solar flare roasting our planet alive? a shower of ejecta from…
Would a earth sized planet really make much a difference if it hit the sun?
Considering the size difference I'm not sure we'd see much of an event as far as ON earth effects.