Possible Ninth Planet (NOT Pluto!)
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Cool. I will read that.
But what about my question. What would happen if a rogue planet or body of sufficient size hit Saturn for example? Would it cause Saturn to go tumbling off its orbit into something else?
Yes!!
What kind of object and speed would be needed to say hit Saturn and send it tumbling?
If that was at all possible.
The planets are already, essentially, falling around the Sun. They are not going to go tumbling anywhere radically different from the path they are on without it being very large. More likely, something so large would end up making a pretty asteroid belt. You're going to need someone better versed in this, I'm just speculating.
Oh no that's fine I was also speculating and wondering to myself. I'm no physicist by any means so it was just the thought of what might happen and what it would look like back here on Earth.
I expect if there was an affect on one planet's orbit there would be some compensating shifts among the others, kind of like Ceti Alpha V in TWOK. How much change would depend on the actual shift of the planet hit and if the intruding object becomes part of the orbital family around the sun.
I didn't know that.
I had "universe sandbox" on steam but it requires planning and math to pull off convincing scenarios.
It is indeed but has a learning curve which I don't have the patience for. But it's a fantastic program. It can do a ton of stuff.
Quite so ... I see your point.
I think it would depend on the size, direction, and speed of the impact. Would it knock Saturn out of orbit? Would the collision simply obliterate both Saturn and the rogue planet. Would it hit Saturn at such an angle that Saturn goes careening into Earth, which then goes spiraling into the sun?!
8 Ball, corner pocket.
At least our lives would be more interesting for the next few hours till we spiral into the sun
It worked for The Twilight Zone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Sun
I wish I had seen that as I really loved that series.
With Uranus axial tilt, my guess is that some large impact may already have happened--perhaps knocking free some of the large diamonds some think may lie within ice giants.
Would P9 be to far away to be a Gas Giant? Could P9 be the remnants of the object that was thought to have collided with Earth? Could P9 be a frozen rocky world that could sustain human life living in habitat like colonies using modules similar to the modules of the ISS?
There is no distance limit for gas giants. The remnants of the proto-Earth collision are the Earth and the Moon (pre-collision it was a slightly smaller Earth and a Mars-sized planet), besides the fact that P9 is thought to be 10X the mass of Earth. And now you're just going off on wild speculative tangents again.
Wow a frozen planet. That would be truly awesome if it's so. But it must be very far out to be dark and undetectable. I like the notion of an ice giant, frozen planet.