Can we put the Earth back in track should it veer off its orbit from the sun?

Question

Is there a contingency plan?
Is our science up to it?
If our technologoy can't do anything, do we have a place to go? (Other than Hell, or Heaven, I mean.)

Answer 1

Yes we already have a plan if the Earth is to veer to the left we have a rocket with a big *** rope we plan on shooting to the moon. Once firmly attatched we will reel so to speak the Earth back on to it's rightfull orbit. Now if the earth veers to the right it's all over brother kiss your momma good-bye because we are talking sub artic temperatures. Are only hope and a slim one at that would be Superman, but correct me if I'm wrong here didn't he fall off a horse and paralyze himself?? Anyway you can read more about this at www.congress.gov

Answer 2

I'm no astrophysicist, but I'd say:
Absolutely not -- a jolt (say, by a very, very large asteroid hitting the Earth) could push it off it's current orbit, but as we are talking in systems of variables, there is no single "correction" to such an event. Instead, any attempt to correct via a contingency (nuclear explosion -- forgetting about the radiation and concentrating only on the force -- even if we were to combine all that have occurred in testing and war previously, would not likely be strong enough), if possible, would result in further complicating the projection. Simply put, you have to just wait for the Earth to settle in it's new found orbit -- which would hopefully not be too many miles closer or further away (somewhere in the <1M miles is my guess) from the Sun, for fear of the temperature extremes on either side of those distance parameters. Another equally important, and related concern: not only would orbit be affected, but also the tilt and rotation -- changing either of these has dire consequences.

In summary, I doubt there is any technology in the foreseeable future that could do a better job than nature herself in settling the Earth back into a sustained orbital (system) path.

Answer 3

Probably not. There isn't anything man-made that is big enough and has the force to push something the size of Earth back into it's orbit.

Assuming it ever goes off orbit, I would imagine it would go directly towards the Sun or at least float off into that general direction.

If humans don't destroy each other and/or the Earth in the next 300-500 years, I believe we could eventually reach a level of technology that would allow that. Maybe.

Answer 4

The earth's orbit results from the relationship of the gravity of our Sun and the Earth.

If we are knocked out of our orbit, we will reestablish a new orbit path following the event; it will likely not be circular anymore in-dangering life as our planet moves farther from the sun like a comet revolves around the sun.

Considering the mass of our planet, there is no way we could effect the orbit of the Earth. It would be like a flea trying to move a mountain.

Alas, we have no were yet to go.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, anything with enough force to change Earth's orbit would cause the destruction of all life on the planet.

And if Earth were forced from it's orbit, the whole solar system would be thrown into havoc, so there really wouldn't be any place to go.

Answer 6

No, the Earth is much too big, we have no way of producing thrust. Besides, the Earth can't go off course. The orbit is pretty much fixed.

There is nowhere else habitable that we know of. With current technology we could get a few people on Mars but without support they wouldn't last many years.

Answer 7

i highly doubt the planet can be veered off it rotational pull from the sun or moon because of the electro magnet waves

the earth rotates at an angle causing us to push forward
would be gravitational pull from the sun as earth's core is hot lava which rotates super sonic fast causing us to produce ,Electro magnet waves ur main electro magnet waves would be the north and south pole the sun gravitational pull use the pole as magnets causing us to spin forward and always stay in orbit

and no our science tech is not up to it

Answer 8

well nothing would massively change the orbit. But explosions on the surface to alter its distance to the sun. I forgot which text book i read it in, but the earths orbit actually changes every year due to forces applied to it by us.

Answer 9

If something made it veer off its orbit, the forces involved would be so great that man would be helpless to do anything.

Answer 10

id like u try that...

its currently impossible but there is one place we can go Mars and we can chat with LGM