Is it possible to create a different planet and have it orbit the Sun between Earth and Mars?

Question

It would start as a satellite space station. Astronauts would add layers of steel and stone until it is the size of the Moon. Then, they would create an atmosphere inside of huge greenhouse domes and humans would live there.

Answer 1

Its possible but I think an easier way is just going to Mars and blowing up a nuclear bomb to melt the polar ice caps to give us water.  

Answer 2

Right, well to a Trekkie, this sounds like a very simple Dyson Sphere. So theoretically, yes it is possible. But I wouldn't recommend it, our solar system has a very very delicate balance that we don't fully understand yet. Adding something of that gravitational magnitude would have serious consequences, such as altering the orbit of both Earth and Mars, possibly sending them into a collision course (Which in the very long scheme might actually be a good thing). It could very well effect our tidal forces in a manner similar to our Moon. Or even draw the moon to itself. The number of possible unknowns is so great, that we'd really be better off trying to recreate Charion (I believe that's how it's spelled), which is the failed planet known as the Asteroid Belt. There's a nice, perfectly round asteroid in there bigger than Pluto or the Moon called Sirius (possibly without the "u"). It would make a perfect starting base, all you'd have to do is start driving the surrounding asteroids into it every couples years, letting it re-stabilize in those intervening years, until it's big enough to do it on it's own. Then we just wait a few hundred years and BLAM-O! New planet. We should probly settle Mars and destroy it like we have Earth first tho.

Answer 3

possible? maybe, but it would probably not be worth it and it may damage the equilibrium or our current solar system.

Easier and less damaging would be to make one in the asteroid belt and use the asteroids themselves as your building blocks.

Answer 4

  I would say that it would have to be a bit of a chore.

Answer 5

couldnt happen.  

Answer 6

Yes, but it would take a tremendous amount of energy and labor.

Answer 7

Not enough resources mate.

And to design an entirely artificial and sustainable eco system and atmosphere is near to impossible. Especially if it has to support the entire human population.

Maybe we could find just the right time to fly the whole population of the earth over to mars, and pump the atmosphere with us.

LOL nah.

Lets stick to designing the fusion reactor.

Answer 8

No only God can create another planet. He created the whole solar system too. Plus...we have the entire Earth..Why do we need another planet?

Answer 9

Sgt. Schwanke's Wife up above there, your first answer is wrong. God cannot create another planet.

Now that this one is here Mother Nature does all that stuff. Sometimes they work together, but not on this one.  

Answer 10

There is so much to take into consideration this would take several super computers working at super-human AI levels to calculate how this would work without destroying our solar system, let alone create it period.

For one, mass is what causes gravity. And, to assemble enough steel to create such a planet or space station or "death star" which seems to be what you are plotting ;P would completely mess up the orbits of all the planets. If you put it between Earth and Mars, we would likely be drawn further from the sun and closer to this "death star" thus killing our planet with coldness. If that didn't do it, the collision with our planet, this "death star" and Mars would. Now, it isn't 100% certain we would collide, but we would be pulled a little further from the sun, which owuld be catastrophic, then again it could balance out our global warming :)

Seriously though you wouldn't want it near Earth because of all the uncertainties.

But, this isn't our next step in our technological and evolutionary developement. The next step would be (after we became able to utilize all of the earth's energy including the energy reaching us from the sun) to create a dome around our solar system to utilize all energy from the sun. Also, something more feasible, would be to find a way to keep our sun going past its 10 billion year age limit. I know settling other star systems would be easier than all this, but if we're traveling at FTL speeds to go to other solar systems, then anything is possible.

Is your idea possible, sure. In a few thousand, maybe few million years yeah. What we would be more worried about is 1) preventing the dying of our sun 2) saving our Earth when the sun reaches 2 billion years old because the sun will expand at that point to the point it will evaporate our atmosphere from the planet off into space. Which the two point coincide with each other. Within 2 billion years, if we survive that long, there's no telling what the h**l we'll be doing. We'll probably be manipulating reality itself. So, don't let these nay-sayers tell you something isn't possible. Sure, it isn't possible anywhere in the near future, but it is possible given enough time. Like, people thought it was stupid to think about walking on the moon, going to mars, creating airplanes, or when people laughed at Einstein for suggesting gravity is caused because space and time are an interwoven fabric that warps when matter is present like a bowling ball in a trampoline. I laugh at the nay-sayers, unless it's God. If God says we can't build a super-steel planet "death star" then we can't, but unlike Schwanke's wife said, God didn't say thou salt not build death stars. He probably wouldn't like it, but he didn't say we couldn't :)

Take care and dream on

Answer 11

i am so happy you have asked about this-no it will not start as a satellite space station,it already is an asteroid belt,and the planet that is missing is in an elliptical orbit,there are documented sitings,it arrives every 3600-4000 years,we are the harvest,our plants,animals,rocks,DNA,we are just an experiment after being slaves to political turmoil,false gods,throw aways,survivors to polar shifts,the woe is me clan,but we are future space walkers,IS-BE's,and the biological caretakers of our beautiful botanics,what our creators have spent alot of time on us,the only thing we have to truly worry about is the proverbial evil scientist falling asleep in his coffee while he guards the button of fate

Answer 12

And where do you propose to get enough stone and steel to build an entire planet?

Answer 13

May be the pertubation from earth and mars even jupiter will make its orbit become chaos, and it will cause some problems among other planets,such as collide with the earth.  

Answer 14

thnk god

EINSTEIN , newton died

if they would have seen this doubt they definetlu=y would have commited suicide

dear friend ther is a graviatational equillibria

between all planets hence when a comet was abt 2 collide with jupiter in 1991 the scientist were worried bcoz such a collision would have thrown jupiter oput of its orbit leading 2 an extra gravity force from sun leading 2 collapse of all planets into sun

LEADING 2 END OF SOLAR SYSTEM

Answer 15

Depends what you mean, large sized planets...no, orbiting spacestations....yes. There is not enough resource to create an extra planetary sized object. Impossible to gather chunks of matter larger than Pluto and make it function.