what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?
what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?
or just a 'poof'?
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Big flare, seismic waves propagating on the surface, and POOF.
probs a bit more than poof, if it were traveling at the speed of light
A "planet" traveling at the speed of light would need to be composed entirely of photons, and (assuming an Earth-sized relativistic mass) would have 5.37x10^41 J of energy. That's around 2.3x the gravitational binding energy of the Sun, so I assume it would be obliterated, along with all of its planets.
^there's the good stuff right there. cheers mate.
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