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Re: Melting a planet's core
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Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:49:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Steven Lane wrote:
> I saw a program the other day which said that the planet Mars lost most of it's
> atmosphere when it lost it's magnetic field. It said that the field deflected
> harmful solar winds preventing them scouring away the atmosphere, but it lost
> it's field when the planets core stopped rotating, this being the result of the
> core cooling down and solidifying.
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> Their was a large thread on Lugnet discussing wether you could move a planet and
> I was wondering could you melt the core core of a planet (and get it moving
> again).
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> One way of melting the core would be to move it so close to the sun that the
> whole planet melted and then move it back out again but I don't know what the
> consequence's of this would be. Could a melted and then cooled planet sustain
> life?
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> Steve
Blow the planet up, hope that gravity reforms enough material into Mars, and
have the resultant material heat up from the process. That would be more
practical than attempting to alter the orbit of Mars I would imagine. :-)
If you had the power to actually move Mars around at will, you'd probably have
the power to directly heat the planet's core with a lot less catastrophic
results.
-->Bruce<--
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| (...) That's a brilliant idea. Instead of using nukes to deflect asteroids heading for Earth, find the biggest thwacking great asteroid you can find and deflect it straight at Mars and smash it to bits. Then wait for the remains to coaless, cool (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I saw a program the other day which said that the planet Mars lost most of it's atmosphere when it lost it's magnetic field. It said that the field deflected harmful solar winds preventing them scouring away the atmosphere, but it lost it's field (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.space)
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