Timeline for Would the inner planets of our Solar System line up?
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| Mar 22, 2017 at 14:26 | vote | accept | catsteevens | ||
| Mar 21, 2017 at 19:47 | answer | added | Sherwood Botsford | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 21, 2017 at 14:11 | comment | added | catsteevens | Guess I should have pointed out that the planets lined up eyeballing naked eye, as per the artwork. :) | |
| Mar 21, 2017 at 2:21 | comment | added | Brian Woodbury | Wow, the thought of this is so cool. If you give this a really drawn out description in the book it'll really give people goosebumps. Send me a copy (seriously) when you've got it finished :) | |
| Mar 21, 2017 at 2:09 | answer | added | TheBlackCat | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 21, 2017 at 1:14 | comment | added | catsteevens | Inclination would matter if the asteroid was 2009 XF8 with an inclination of 66.27 deg. I don't think the planets would be tight ellipses then. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 22:48 | comment | added | JDługosz | Interesting coincedence: see the plots illustrating What does “side view” of solar system look like? | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 21:02 | answer | added | BradC | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:31 | comment | added | cobaltduck | You are saying that your observer's location has no inclination. That doesn't matter, as the three non-earth planets in view do have some inclination. Therefore your observer will see their paths as tight ellipses, not as lines. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:31 | comment | added | Joe Kissling | @catsteevens if it was tidally locked with the sun you would have rotation that matches the orbital period, so from the perspective of the observer no rotation. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:29 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:20 | comment | added | catsteevens | @cobaltduck Interesting. Although the planetoid has no inclination, as I amended. Maybe I should have added that it does not rotate either. If that's likely. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:09 | comment | added | cobaltduck | There was a highly related question on SpaceEx.SE earlier today: space.stackexchange.com/q/20719. Note in that question how the "side view" shows the inner planets are not in a line. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:03 | comment | added | catsteevens | Right. Either that or the Ecliptic plane. | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:02 | history | edited | catsteevens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 20:01 | answer | added | Joe Kissling | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 19:59 | comment | added | AlexP | Congratulations! You have discovered the Zodiac from purely theoretical considerations. (The Zodiac is a belt and not a line because while it's true that the planets are close to being in the same plane there are actually differences of a few degrees between the planes of their orbits. For the same reason the transits of Venus are rather rare.) | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 19:54 | history | asked | catsteevens | CC BY-SA 3.0 |