RE: The Eclipse, the Eclipse!!
August 20, 2017 at 12:14 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2017 at 12:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 20, 2017 at 11:37 am)Jehanne Wrote:(August 20, 2017 at 9:32 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: How about reducing the inclination of the lunar orbit so he get more eclipses?
Well, the Moon has a mass of 7.34767309 × 10^22 kilograms. Giving it a "meaningful" acceleration of 0.1 mm/s^2 would require a force equal to:
(7.34767309 × 10^22) * (0.0001) = 7,347,673,090,000,000,000 Newtons, or 7,347,673,090,000,000,000 Joules/meter.
The largest hydrogen bomb (the Tsar bomb) yielded 209,200,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy, or about 2% of the energy that it would take to accelerate the Moon through 1 meter. Of course, all of that energy would need to be concentrated at a particular point on the Moon's surface and would all need to be converted into the Moon's kinetic energy.
I see that can be difficult. How about moving the sun up from the current ecliptic plane to better align the new ecliptic with the plane of lunar orbit?
