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9655399 No.9655399 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a way to increase a planet's mass, density, and etc artificially? For example, Pluto is a small dwarf planet and has a lower gravity on Earth. Is there a way to increase Pluto's mass?

>> No.9655407

crash metallic asteroids into it and wait 50 million years for the crust to re-form

>> No.9655412

Energy mass equivalence

>> No.9655610
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>>9655399
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_Earth

>> No.9655617

Creatine or whey brah

>> No.9656100

>>9655399
There is no way to increase a planet's mass other than by adding additional material.
Pluto's mass is 1.3e22 kg
ALL asteroids combined (metallicity doesn't matter) are about 2.8e21 kg
Fusing them into a single body would increase Pluto's mass about 21 percent.

Assuming all bodies are roughly the same density, Pluto's surface gravity would increase by about 6 percent.

Of course, moving all those bodies onto collision courses requires throwing a good deal of them away as reaction mass. So you can't do even as well as I've calculated.

>> No.9656117

>>9655399
just feed your mum some beans

>> No.9656118

>>9655399
Higgs field and an energy source to bloat it.

>> No.9656128

>>9655610
attempts to explain that are through a possible variation of the gravitational constant with time, not because the mass is changing.

>> No.9656142
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>>9655399
Just collide an asteroid on it. (or a comet, moon or even a smaller planet)

Colliding a big asteroid on Earth would kill people here on Earth though.