The Science of Interstellar by Thorne Kip

Author:Thorne, Kip [Thorne, Kip]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
ISBN: 9780393351385
Amazon: B00NUB4EVC
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-11-07T00:00:00+00:00

After discovering that Miller’s planet is hopeless for human colonization, Cooper and his crew travel to Mann’s planet.

The Planet’s Orbit and Lack of Sun

I have deduced a plausible orbit for Mann’s planet from two things in Interstellar:

First, Doyle says the trip to Mann’s planet will require months. From this I infer that, when the Endurance arrives at Mann’s planet, it must be far from Gargantua’s vicinity where the trip began. Second, almost immediately after the Endurance’s explosive accident in orbit around Mann’s planet, the crew find the Endurance being pulled toward Gargantua’s horizon. From this I infer that, when they leave Mann’s planet, the planet must be near Gargantua.

To achieve both requirements, the orbit of Mann’s planet must be highly elongated. And to avoid the planet’s being engulfed by Gargantua’s accretion disk as it nears Gargantua, the orbit, so far as possible, must be far above or below Gargantua’s equatorial plane, where the disk resides.

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