Could the passing of Planet X push the earth closer to the sun?

Question

My final example which is very extreme but gets my point across is if you have our solar system that is balanced by the gravitational pull of each mass pulling and pushing on each other. What if you launched a nuke at mars and completely destroyed it would it realign the distance of all the other planets from the sun?

Answer 1

The Babylonians predicted the existence of this planet and the elliptical orbit 6,000 years ago.

Planet X is to pass within the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the year 2012 and will create havoc with the Earths climate.

People who live off of fear haven't seen anything yet.

Answer 2

There is more chance of the moon being made of cheese.

Answer 3

Check your laws of gravity.  If Planet X did exist, passing by us on a non-orbital pathway would draw Earth TOWARD it, the amount of movement dependent upon Planet X's velocity and mass.

Planets do not attract or repel each other with magnetic forces, it's all gravity.

Answer 4

A: Obviously space is not empty…what does space dust have to do with Planet X?

B: If there was an entire planet coming toward us, we'd have seen it by now.

C: If this hypothetical planet does exist, it could theoretically change the Earth's orbit if it passed close enough. Moving toward the sun would cause a rise in temps. It just as likely, though, that we'd move away and see a drop in temps. It depends where the planet passes us. Your analogy of a sand with rocks is completely wrong. Planet X and Earth would be drawn towards each other by gravity, so a close pass inside Earths orbit could cause it to move toward the sun. Your "low density particles" would have to be as dense as water to have any such effect. Clearly, this is not the case.

D: Magnetism is not a factor in any of this.

E: If we launched every nuke that's ever existed at Mars, it would not be destroyed. If, again hypothetically, it was possible, it could alters Earth's orbit slightly.

Where did you get this Planet X fairy tale from, anyway? Did Big Foot tell you about it?

Answer 5

Planets aren't moved by magnetic forces very often. There is no way that Planet X will be able to get that close to the sun. That's like saying Earth could knock Mars off it's orbit, the gravitational pull of the sun is so much greater than any planet in our solar system that our orbits are pretty set in place.

Answer 6

Planet X --------- does not exist!  We would have seen it already with our Earth based or Space based telescopes---

Planet X is a big HOAX!  HOWEVER-- here are the top ten "space" ways to end the world-- they are all possible though highly unlikely:

http://www.livescience.com/technology/de...

Answer 7

After reading your question, my advice would be get a lawyer and sue your high school science teacher as he seems to let you down completely.

Answer 8

The magnetic effects are extremely small.  

Now, this "planet X" (which doesn't exist in the sense we used to hypothesize about it)......if it passed between us and the sun, it would draw us closer to the sun........gravity is always attractive.  

If the perturbation was very small, everything would probably go back to normal.   If it was very large, no.  You figure we are always being perturbed......when Jupiter is on the opposite side of the sun as us for instance vs when its on the same side, but this amounts to a tiny jiggle that really isn't noticed.  

Gravity is also essentially a weak force.  

F= G*M1*M2 / r^2.     r is distance and as distance doubles, the force drops by 1/4.  

This object would have to be very large and pass very close to us......it being that large, it'd probably reflect sun light enough for us to detect it and notice its hurdling towards us.