What if Earth collided with Uranus?

Because Uranus is about 15 times more massive than the Earth, its gravitational pull would start massively affecting our planet. Volcanoes would begin erupting uncontrollably, and tremendous earthquakes would get in on the act, destroying Earth from the inside.
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What collided with Uranus?

According to the new study, objects with about 1 to 3 Earth masses collided with both Uranus and Neptune after they formed. Uranus was just grazed, while Neptune suffered a head-on impact.
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Is Uranus getting closer to Earth?

At the opposition, the planet will be at 18.79 AU. This means the gas giant will be 60 million Km closer to the Earth than its average distance.
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Can humans live on Titan?

Titan is extremely cold, with an annual temperature of -180 C (-291 F), but thankfully, due to its thick atmosphere, humans walking outside on titan would only need warm clothing and respirators. Titan's atmosphere lacks oxygen; however it contains ice water below its surface that can be used as a source of oxygen.
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Is Uranus life possible?

Uranus' environment is not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to.
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What If Uranus Collided With Earth?



What if Saturn crashed into Earth?

However, if Saturn were to come closer to Earth (after chucking the Moon out of orbit), imagine the scale of ocean tides then. There would be huge… no, apocalyptic tidal waves that would rage all over the planet and destroy everything in their path.
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What would happen if Pluto hit Earth?

A collision would be quite spectacular to watch (just think back to the comet crash on Jupiter, that made some quite sizable explosions - Pluto is much bigger than a comet), although the system is so far away it will have no effect on the earth.
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What if Jupiter crashed into the Sun?

If Jupiter were mixed throughout the sun, the temperature of the sun would decrease slightly, and perhaps it would take a few hundred years for the sun's temperature to return to its previous level, and maybe we would get a few basis points less solar radiation, but it wouldn't go out. Highly active question.
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What if Earth crashed into Jupiter?

As we crash into Jupiter, both planets' atmospheres will be compressed, rapidly increasing the temperature, and essentially setting the air on fire.
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What if the Moon crashed into Earth?

What would happen if the Moon crashed into Earth? Everything on Earth would die. The only way to survive this collision would be to leave Earth. The Moon and Earth would both be destroyed; the Earth would probably be split into numerous smaller pieces.
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Will a planet hit Earth?

Zeebe reports good news for modern man: In no simulation did any planet hit Earth. In the 20 September issue of The Astrophysical Journal, Zeebe states that our planet's orbit is highly stable for at least the next 5 billion years and that the odds of another world smashing into us are extremely slim.
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Will Uranus ever explode?

Since Uranus contains effectively zero free oxygen, the hydrogen and methane in the atmosphere does not burn or explode.
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Has Uranus become unstable?

A recent study reckons Uranus once had a sizeable system of rings around it, a little like Saturn does today. The orbital dance between these rings and a more youthful Uranus proved unstable, causing the ice giant to lurch about and tip over on its side.
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What if a black hole hit Earth?

Bad News for Earth

The same gravitational effects that produced spaghettification would start to take effect here. The edge of the Earth closest to the black hole would feel a much stronger force than the far side. As such, the doom of the entire planet would be at hand. We would be pulled apart.
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Would a black hole destroy Earth?

Scientists have debunked this perception. Earth is facing no threat because no black hole is close enough to the solar system for our planet. According to NASA, even if a black hole the same mass as the sun replace the sun, Earth still would not fall in.
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How fast would a black hole destroy Earth?

Theoretically if there was no spin or outward pressure to take into consideration, Heile said, it would take about 10 to 15 minutes for the entire Earth to fall into the black hole.
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What if Earth was a moon of Jupiter?

Since Jupiter's gravitational pull accelerates these objects to a collision speed of about 216,000 km/h (134,000 mph), at the minimum. If Earth became one of Jupiter's moons, we're now in the line of fire. As a much, much smaller planet we're less likely to be able to absorb those kind of impacts.
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What planet rains diamonds?

Deep within Neptune and Uranus, it rains diamonds—or so astronomers and physicists have suspected for nearly 40 years. The outer planets of our Solar System are hard to study, however. Only a single space mission, Voyager 2, has flown by to reveal some of their secrets, so diamond rain has remained only a hypothesis.
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Can humans breathe on Europa?

Europa has a thin oxygen atmosphere, but it is far too tenuous for humans to breathe. From the surface of Europa, Jupiter appears 24 times larger than the moon appears in our sky. Europa's magnetic field shields its surface from Jupiter's deadly radiation.
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Can we colonize Uranus?

2 Helium Mines On Uranus

As hard as it is to reach Uranus, we might not have any choice. Jupiter and Saturn have plenty of helium-3 as well, but they would both be almost impossible to colonize. Jupiter's gravity is too intense to survive, and Saturn's rings shower its surface with a constant hail of meteors.
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Can humans live on Europa?

Europa's surface is blasted by radiation from Jupiter. That's a bad thing for life on the surface – it couldn't survive. But the radiation may create fuel for life in an ocean below the surface. The radiation splits apart water molecules (H2O, made of oxygen and hydrogen) in Europa's extremely tenuous atmosphere.
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