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davidgro@lemmy.world 1 day agoExpanding a little on the last part, Earth’s orbital velocity is about 29.8 km/s so that’s the speed at which we would suddenly be leaving the former location of the solar system in a direction that depends on what time of year it happened. Regardless of direction though, the escape velocity of the Milky Way around where we are is about 544 km/s so there’s no way we’d be leaving the galaxy. On the other hand the plane of the galaxy is only about 6 degrees off from the galactic center at the moment, so if this happened at the right time of year (don’t know when that is) we could launch somewhat towards the core. We would not however get very close to it because the sun’s own orbital velocity is about 230 km/s so we’d still be in close to the same galactic orbit overall, just potentially a bit more eccentric.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 23 hours ago
Do you think Jupiter would take over as our center of the solar system? Hopefully it doesn’t sling us into deep space or another planet
Klear@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I wouldn’t sling us into deep space because we are in deep space and will continue to be in deep space.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
I meant like away from the rest of our planets. Space= above earth. Deep space= beyond solar system. No one considers earth space
Klear@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Other planets would just fly off depending on where they were in their orbit relative to us.
But saying we’re flying off to deep space makes no sense because the solar system is the area around the sun. No sun = no distinction.