Channel: Aryanatomy

Category: Science & Technology

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Description: What if the order was: Sun - Pluto - Neptune - Uranus - Saturn - Jupiter - Mars - Earth - Venus - Mercury? Let's talk about 2 cases: 0:00 The 2 cases 0:14 Case 1 2:43 Case 2 With case 1:planets were in reverse order from the very beginning: I know we’re trying to imagine a scenario like this, but, why is the solar system ordered the way it is right now? Why is it mercury, Venus, earth, jupiter, saturn, Uranus, Neptune, then pluto? Well if you haven’t noticed already, the solid planets are closer the sun, and the gaseous planets are farther. Why is that? Well from our current level of understanding of solar system formation, solar systems are formed from large ‘dust clouds’ if you will. A star may form from the gas clouds and particles, and planets may form around this star. Now if there is a star, the particles revolving that star will slowly but surely form solid planets, and the farther you go from the star, the less solid particles there are, so mostly gas planets will form. It’s important to note that the gaseous planets in our solar system are not fully gaseous, they do have solid cores. And this makes sense. For example, the core of jupiter was first formed from the particles orbiting the sun, then, because of the low supply of solid particles and high supply of gas clouds, jupiter started to form into a gas giant. A dense core, with a less dense atmosphere and surface. This same idea applies to saturn, Uranus and Neptune. And these processes took a couple million years. What about pluto? Well it’s still possible for a planet or dwarf planet to form very very far away from its star, it's not impossible. Remember, Pluto is very very small. It did not take much dust and particles to form Pluto when you compare it to Earth, let's say. If Pluto was as big as Saturn, and it was solid, then that would be an issue. But it’s not like that right now. So for us to imagine that the planets were in reverse order from the very beginning, is kind of absurd. But for case 2: imagine the planets reversed order, instantly, right now, is also an absurd scenario, however I feel like I can tackle this case a little better than the first case. Ignoring the whole process of switching planets positions, because I can’t think of any way that could happen, lets imagine that, right now, instantaneously, the planets reversed order. With pluto being the closest to the sun, and mercury being the farthest. What would happen? Keyword here, Would. Not will. Because this is all theoretical. Pluto’s icy environment would start to melt away, and the dwarf planet would have a completely new environment. The gravitational pull that the planets would have on each other would change. Earth would be already out of the habitable zone, so we will freeze quickly. Jupiter and the other gas planets would form planets known as “hot Jupiters”, these are basically gas giants that have very high temperatures due to being close to their star. These types of planets do exist, and they would exist if our SS reversed order. Also, the moons of Jupiter like Europa would melt, due to their icy nature. So basically, we will die by freezing, our oceans will freeze into ice, Hot Jupiters will form, the planets will continue orbiting the sun, unless the gravitational forces say otherwise. And that's that. Hope you didn’t expect something good to come out of this.