2007-10-28 15:21:18 · 7 answers · asked by martinlh 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
A second question is, would the radiation from the Sun be powerful enough to "push" the Earth away into a further orbit?
2007-10-28 15:22:36 · update #1
The Earth may survive as a lump of rock, but any evidence that there was once a biosphere will have melted and recrystallised long before it gets that big.
Because of the sun's loss of mass and a slowing in the Earth's revolution because of tidal forces from the sun, the orbit of Venus may extend to where Earth is now, and Earth may be where Mars is now. It may have a 75 per cent chance of surviving as a lump of rock until the sun becomes a white dwarf.
After that, a number of things may or may not happen in the vast stretches of time, but that's another question.
2007-10-28 21:48:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The planet might remain, but not in any form that would support life. The solar wind would not be strong enough to significantly alter the orbit, but as the Sun loses mass the planets will move away somewhat.
2007-10-28 23:04:07 · answer #2 · answered by injanier 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
absolutely zero percent when sun enters red giant stage
everything on earth will have been incinerated by then
2007-10-28 22:26:46 · answer #3 · answered by bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. By that time we should be well away from Earth.
2007-10-29 00:55:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None and you betcha!
You only have four billion years to solve the problem.
2007-10-28 22:40:23 · answer #5 · answered by eric l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO chance.
2007-10-28 22:43:32 · answer #6 · answered by cherry babe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no chances...nil....notta.....ehh ehhh
2007-10-29 00:17:04 · answer #7 · answered by comethunter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋