Wed 15 Nov, 2017 09:33 am - [quote]I don't mind the discussion. It's better than a lot of the religious twaddle that comes up. But I think the answer I have for you is very similar to what you got from the astronomy... (view)
Tue 14 Nov, 2017 01:17 pm - [quote]Please, if you feel this is a waste of your time - no problem - curiosity may have killed the cat, but I'll survive. [/quote]
Although that might be debatable if my last name were... (view)
Tue 14 Nov, 2017 12:34 pm - This is all just a mental exercise. I'm not looking for exactness, just generalities. Being a scifi fan, I thought it a fascinating concept.
I'm not writing a book or a movie, but you... (view)
Tue 14 Nov, 2017 02:41 am - I'd also like to ask about the visibility of this object from earth.
This is what Wikipedias says about the visibility of a brown dwarf:
[quote]However, such objects were hard to find as... (view)
Tue 14 Nov, 2017 12:36 am - Let me add a few more quotes from the other forum too.
[quote]If a brown dwarf (or larger object) got very close to the planet (it doesn't even need to impact it), the planet would be ripped... (view)
Tue 14 Nov, 2017 12:03 am - Let me insert here something that was said in that other forum. Food for thought.
[i]The problem is that too much depends on the actual circumstances of the encounter. For example, if we assume... (view)
Mon 13 Nov, 2017 11:39 pm - [quote]Jupiter's gravitational effect on the Earth is minute. Remember that Jupiter is on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth once every year, and the Earth races beneath Jupiter (from the... (view)
Mon 13 Nov, 2017 11:32 pm - [quote]I'm not sure any orbital situation can be imagined in which any object of similar mass to Jupiter would actually remove a significant amount of mass from Jupiter (as you say). But I... (view)
Mon 13 Nov, 2017 06:27 pm - [quote]There are people at some universities that study gravitational effects of planets in a star system. They can answer your questions about this. I wondered what it would take to set Jupiter... (view)
Mon 13 Nov, 2017 06:22 pm - [quote]Of course, all of this depends on just how massive the impacting object might be, and on angle of incidence and speed. It's possible that a super massive object could pass by Jupiter... (view)
