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what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?
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I mean the sun is pretty heckin huge
It would a situation of, "who threw that pebble?"
Ah, but at what speed?
The speed of love.
Skyscrapers are winking
Now I'm imagining the type of event that could cause a planet to move at such a significant percent of c that you could disrupt the sun with it. I don't think we're gonna get a planet moving that fast. I think we'd be limited to stellar core remnants to get that kick in velocity.
As it is, our entire solar system is orbiting at 514,000mph or about 1/1300th the speed of light relative to the center of the galaxy. And the Milky Way Galaxy is moving at about 1.3 million mph through the universe.
That's not how relativity works. Moving quickly relative to what? The planet might be moving slow relative to the local objects where it began its movement, but the local objects at it's origination point were also moving at some speed, and the group of objects that the local group was in were also moving at some speed, etc etc. And likewise our sun isn't stationary, it's also moving relative to everything else, so you could just as easily say the planet is stationary but our sun was moving very quickly toward the stationary planet. There is no thing as an absolute slow/fast when you're talking about bodies in space. There are tons of ways that a planet sized object could have a fraction-of-c speed relative to our sun.
And there are "rogue planets" out there. They aren't held into any orbital system, they're just flying free in empty space. So that part is true as well. It would be very unlikely that some of them AREN'T moving extremely quickly relative to the sun.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_planet
Ok, let's see:
The parent posted didn't mention relativity. Just that a planet was moving at a fraction of c, which is a specific amount (let's say, 10,000 km/s)
Since the parent poster is talking about the sun, and how such a planet with such velocity could affect it (the sun), then it's easy to assume that the planet is moving quickly relative to the sun itself.
So, the poster's question is equivalent to saying "if a feather collides with my body, it may do nothing. But what if the feather is super-super-super fast?! What would it do to my body??"
We are going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy maybe 1 billion years before the sun fizzles out. Something there with opposite galactic orbit from us could smack into our sun at over 700 km/s.
as they pass through eachother, the odds are very, very low any object from andromeda hits any object in our galaxy
Absolutely! The odds are, as they say "astronomical". That goes for all scenarios where a planet sized rock doots our sun in general.
Could it go fast enough that it doesn't have enough time to absorb significant amounts of heat and pops out the other side basically intact?
All I can think of is aliens. I can't think of anything in nature that could get a planet moving that fast.
Now a much more dense object like a mini black hole? That's a more interesting question.