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Ten human generations...

Postby CMDR DancingLemur » Sat Oct 24, 2015 8:51 pm

... will live and die in one year on this planet (if it were habitable). Check the orbital period and semi major axis values.

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Approximately 50k Ls far from it's parental neutron star. I have found this insanity on my two months long trip to Sag A (still 8k Ly to go). Checked with Universal Cartographics webpage if it is a record - and nope, the record is 130AU semi major axis and 1 mil. days orbital period for a HMC planet.

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Re: Ten human generations...

Postby Gorf » Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:39 pm

Our own Pluto is about a quarter of that, which I still find impressive.

Speaking of orbital stats - I prepared the pub quiz a couple of weeks ago. One of my tie breaks was "If the Earth was shrunk to the size of a snooker ball, Neptune would be as big as a size five football. How far apart would they need to be to represent the difference in their average orbital radius?"
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Re: Ten human generations...

Postby TorTorden » Sat Oct 24, 2015 10:20 pm

Think there might be a "winter is coming" joke somewhere in here...
Although 196 k is pretty freaking cold (-77c) even here in Norway ;)
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Re: Ten human generations...

Postby Jaimes » Sun Oct 25, 2015 1:38 pm

Gorf wrote:Our own Pluto is about a quarter of that, which I still find impressive.

Speaking of orbital stats - I prepared the pub quiz a couple of weeks ago. One of my tie breaks was "If the Earth was shrunk to the size of a snooker ball, Neptune would be as big as a size five football. How far apart would they need to be to represent the difference in their average orbital radius?"
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Thankfully it wasn't needed in the end


Check out this vid, I think you would like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg
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Re: Ten human generations...

Postby Gorf » Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:16 pm

Jaimes wrote:Check out this vid, I think you would like it.

It was what inspired the question :)

I had to scale it to something that the old folk in the pub would be able to visualise, hence the snooker ball and football.
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