• lad@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Not sure if that would be as simple as estimating the falling time. Most likely, it will change the revolution period of other planets, but my guess is that nothing dramatic is going to happen. Would love to see a simulation of that, of course ❤️

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      5 months ago

      Check out Universe Sandbox on steam. Open the Sol system and delete a planet, change all the settings add black holes

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        Well, I tried to remove Neptune in Universe Sandbox, it did nothing (as expected, tbf). I tried to remove all the planets except the Earth, and it spilled moons all over the solar system, but none even hit the Earth in a hundred years of simulation. Earth seemed to go slightly faster on the orbit (very slightly, though)

        The sandbox looks pretty meditative, but also seems like it could do as a good education supplement, thanks for the hint

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          Yeah, I normally used it to play with the gravity of the sun or the planets. It is a free sim but with what I was doing it was fun to watch the planets fly out of the system.