The location of the wormhole in the Bajor system

[Lynx]

I've started to think about Bajor, its rotation around its sun and the location of the wormhole in the Denorios belt.

Let us start with Bajor.

The planet is obviously the seventh planet in the Bajoran system. As such, it must be located at a distance similar to Earth's asteroid belt. Bajor's sun must be bigger that Earth's sun because otherwise Bajor would not have the warm climate it obviously has.

Bajor has a rotation of 26 hours compared to Earth's 24. But due to the distance from the sun, Bajor must have a longer orbit around the sun. Some poster on reddit or whatever suggested a rotation of 13 Earth years around its sun.

As for the wormhole, it's located in the Denorios belt which is stated to be 160 million kilometers from Bajor. According to some pictures over the systems, there is one planet located between Bajor and the Denorios belt.

The station Deep Space Nine was orbiting Bajor when the Cardassians were in charge but in the episode Emissary it was moved to a position outside the wormhole.

Then we come to the interesting point.

The wormhole is said to be stable. Therefore it must be located at the same spot in the system all the time and so is also the station.

But in that case, the distance from the station to Bajor must vary, due to Bajor's rotation. So if Sisko want to go to Bajor to have tea with the Kai, then the trip from the station might take some hours when Bajor is at its closest point to the wormhole.

But about 7 years later when Bajor is on the opposite side of the sun, it will take a longer time for Sisko to go to Bajor. OK, the space shuttles are fast so it might only be about hours but still it will take longer time.

Anyone else who have some thoughts about this?

Picture of Bajor system can be found on this site.

 

[Osol Twist]

I never thought about it but yeah it would take lets say like 20 times longer when Bajor is at the other side of the sun
so a four hour trip would turn into more than 3 days. That must have been the perfect excuse for Sisko to say no to a lot of tea-invitations from the Kai,
no wonder Winn was so grumpy and mean all the time...

 

[publiusr]

I might have had it orbit a gas giant—could it be in a libration point?

I could see it in the barycenter between two co-orbiting gas giants of the exact same mass—that might explain the stability as compared to the Barzan wormhole on walkabout.

 

[Farscape One]

The wormhole was stable because it was artificially constructed by the wormhole aliens (Prophets).

The travel time from DS9 to Bajor was 3 hours, and that stayed pretty much the same throughout the series.

An interesting thought about Bajor's orbit and the position of DS9... never really thought about it before.

 

[Lynx]

The wormhole was stable because it was artificially constructed by the wormhole aliens (Prophets).

The travel time from DS9 to Bajor was 3 hours, and that stayed pretty much the same throughout the series.

I interesting thought about Bajor's orbit and the position of DS9... never really thought about it before.

I never did until recently.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Some poster on reddit or whatever suggested a rotation of 13 Earth years around its sun.

The Peldor Gratitude Festival, an annual festival, happens twice in the course of the series, in Fascination and Tears of the Prophets. Assuming there were no others that happened in between, the length of a Bajoran year would be 3 and one half years.

 

[Farscape One]

The Peldor Gratitude Festival, an annual festival, happens twice in the course of the series, in Fascination and Tears of the Prophets. Assuming there were no others that happened in between, the length of a Bajoran year would be 3 and one half years.

Except in "FASCINATION", Kira tells Bareil that Dax has been helping her prepare for the festival on DS9 for the last two years and it's 'becoming a tradition' with those two.