Comment on what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?
cevn@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.