Would it be possible to merge two different solar system?

Question

If so, what benefits & disasters occur with this?

Answer 1

It happens. Interestingly enough, collisions between the stars involved is rare. After all there are lightyears of distance between things! However, the gravitational effects are staggering. All new orbits for all of the bodies in each system would have to evolve as well as the orbits of the stars around each other. I don't think our living planet would survive very long because any vaiation in our orbit would play havoc with the weather (or eliminate it entirely if it got too cold and the air froze).

How about galaxies colliding! Streams of stars will be ripped out into strings and spirals as the galaxies pass through each other.

The Milky Way is due to collide with and mostly absord the Lesser Magalenic Cloud galaxy in the furure (but we won't be around then).

So what would happen then to the earth? Well, it depends how close things come. Gravitational forces could disrupt the orbits of planets in our solar system. It could pull on the asteroids and the bodies in the Ort Cloud. We'd be in for a increased meteorite activity. It wouldn't take a big one to eliminate humanity but life might go on and re-evolve.

If the sun were to get stressed or impacted by several smaller bodies, this could disrupt the careful ballence that we have evolved under. Something else better suited to a weaker or stronger sun might evolve. If the sun took a big whack, well just hope that by then we've sent colonization ships to other stars.

Here is a shot from the Hubble telescope of FOUR galaxies colliding!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer20070806a.html

Answer 2

Of course! Happens all the time in our galaxy!
The benefits and disasters are pretty much the same, though.

Disasters: Planetary and solar bodies may collide with each other causing destruction on an unimaginable scale...If a planet with living inhabitants were involved in this, they would likely be exterminated almost instantly, maybe, if things work out just right, the systems might integrate fairly quickly and a living planet might still harbor some microbial life for long enough to survive inconsistent solar exposure...But if OUR solar system were to "merge" with another...We would all die...Even if we didn't pass too close to a solar body or collide with a planet or asteroid the chances of us resuming a stable orbit before our environment became uninhabitable, are as slim as the regular orbit being within our habitable range...Savvy?

Benefits: A clean slate...If enough microbes survive and the planet miraculously resumes a livable orbit...Then the whole messy process of evolution gets a fresh start...Maybe this time they'll pay closer attention to the Florida ballots...
Wait...
His BROTHER runs that state?! WTF?!!!!

Answer 3

Hi, If two different solar systems were to merge, it would be one of the biggest disaster to happen. The pull from each sun would pull the small planets apart and the larger ones would collide into each other, after which both solar systems would be destroyed.

Answer 4

This happens in the universe all the time and it would be a disaster. If one solar system collides with another each of their own gravity will tear each others apart. Planets and starts would go in different places and if it was to happen to us, wed be screwed. If the Sun was to move let say a billion miles away from us. Then it would get extremely cold maybe 100 degrees below. It happens on a bigger scale also with Galaxy's.

Answer 5

If we take two systems, each with a star (a sun) and some number of planets, and combine them, the two stars would have to revolve around each other. (If they were not in orbit around each other, their gravitational attraction for each other would cause them to collide and become one star, or to be widely scattered by the force of the collision.)

Once you have the two stars orbiting each other, they form what is called a "binary." Planets can orbit around the binary, and will basically act as if they were orbiting around a single star (or sun) located at the center of gravity of the two stars. However, in the process of putting the two solar systems together, many of the planets would likely end up with oddly shaped orbits (that is, their paths would form long ellipses (ovals), instead of nearly circular orbits like the planets in our solar system).

Also, the planets' orbits would probably be at least a little irregular. Because they are not really orbiting around a single star located at the two stars' center of gravity, they would be pulled a little this way or that way as they got closer to or farther from each of the stars. Also, the temperature of each planet could undergo wild swings as it passes near one star or the other, or is relatively close to both at the same time.

In the extreme case, some planets could fly off into interstellar space, or some could collide, as their orbits vary.

I can't really think of any benefits, other than the opportunity for any life forms on the planets to gaze at the wonder of two suns in the sky.

Answer 6

The answer is NO. The reason is, there is no other SOLAR system. The star system we are in is called the SOLAR system because the name of our sun is "SOL". There is no other star out there named "Sol" that we are aware of. (Therefore, no other "Solar" system.) As for STAR systems, there is a very good possibility of inhabition of life. It might be moss, it might be fish, it might be something more. Having 2 planets sharing a close orbit to each other with a smaller star could yield the same results as 2 planets of varied orbits of a larger star. So as for LIFE...anything is possible. As for Solar System, I don't think so.

Answer 7

Even the change in gravitational forces would:

at the least cause massive tidal flooding and earthquakes

at the worst, tear the planet apart.

Answer 8

If they get close enough, then yes they would merge.

I wouldn't recommend standing too closely to this event, however. Planets accidentally crashing into each other is not conducive to your health...but would be a breathtaking sight!

Answer 9

it would be possible but not by our efforts.. its would basically create hell. we would have 2 be in constant fear of planet crashes which will create alot of meteors and with our atmosphere in current state it would end up being a disaster

Answer 10

It is entirely possible as while we speak our galaxy is being sheared by two other galaxies.

There is of course risk in any movement of bodies.