Timeline for How fast could earth orbit the sun without its orbit changing?
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| Oct 16, 2017 at 18:30 | comment | added | Leezard | @JoeBloggs It's a disaster scenario. Of course that's a fun idea, no doubt I can have someone say, "Big engines, what could go wrong?" :) | |
| Oct 16, 2017 at 15:59 | answer | added | DisturbedNeo | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 16, 2017 at 8:05 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @Leezard: you could sorta do it with really big engines and active course correction, but at that point you’ve just handwaved engines powerful enough to move the earth, so... | |
| Oct 16, 2017 at 6:42 | answer | added | DannyBoy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 15, 2017 at 22:27 | answer | added | David Richerby | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 15, 2017 at 17:33 | comment | added | Leezard | Yes, the 30 km/s is an overall average along the elliptical path. At some points of the orbit, it's faster and slower at others. I was hoping to make a storyline in which Earth's solar year became faster (shorter) without a change in orbit as I needed other environmental factors to remain unchanged. I see that's not a possibility without ignoring or wand-waving the laws of physics. | |
| Oct 15, 2017 at 6:30 | comment | added | user6760 | Logan's answer is actually referring to perihelion or the closest point of Earth orbit around Sun using Kepler 2nd law. The orbit is actually elliptical according to Kepler 1st law so velocity Max out when Earth is closest to Sun. | |
| Oct 15, 2017 at 6:09 | answer | added | Itsme2003 | timeline score: 30 | |
| Oct 15, 2017 at 1:11 | vote | accept | Leezard | ||
| Oct 15, 2017 at 0:50 | answer | added | Logan R. Kearsley | timeline score: 77 | |
| Oct 15, 2017 at 0:46 | history | asked | Leezard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |