Originally posted by AgentSmith
Incidentally I did the math for you, to save you the hassle.
The gravitational force exerted by Venus on Earth on the 5th June 2012 will be *drum roll*
Using:
Mass of Earth - 5.9736*10^24kg
Mass of Venus - 4.8685*10^24kg
Distance of Earth from Venus on the 5th June 2012 - 4.321*10^10 meters
Gravitational Force Calculator
is a whopping....
1.0389355664314593 x 10^ -10 newtons......
That's an amazing 0.0000000000103 (3.s.f.) Newtons if scientific notation boggles your mind.
For comparison, a 7500kg truck driving 10 meters away from someone weighing 80kg would exert about 4 x 10^-7 Newtons.. 3 orders of magnitude more than Venus on the Earthedit on 18-1-2012 by AgentSmith because: (no reason given)
I don't think you understand what is going to happen. Think of Venus as a gravitational lens that focuses the Suns gravitational force on a small area of Earth thus causing earthquakes and such like. Yes a shift such as this may take 6 months before we feel it as an earthquake.
I am only writing this for # and giggles but it does illustrate the point that 'science' is not all powerful.
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