Chapter 451, Consuming Ceres (1)
In the empty void of the solar system, a bright firefly is moving slowly in the void, and this firefly is the 'Emperor Wu of Han' spaceship.
Its speed at this time has exceeded the speed of 200 kilometers per second, and the incandescent tail flame spewed out from its tail is already dozens of miles long, it looks like a comet with a long tail, and it looks like a firefly in the dark void.
Although it was already very fast, in the vast void of the universe, it seemed to be very slow, very slow, as slow as a snail, and even seemed to have been moving at one point at all.
The universe is so vast that a small solar system is already very big for human beings.
After more than ten days of sailing, the 'Emperor Wu of Han' reached the asteroid belt and began to slow down continuously, while constantly flying in the direction of Ceres.
Ceres, the smallest and only dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered by the Italian astronomer Piacci in 1801.
In order to transform Mars, scientists from Galaxy Technology Group have sent spacecraft in advance to conduct a detailed investigation of Ceres.
Ceres is not just a rocky planet, it has a lot of water on it, and it is definitely the most needed thing to transform Mars.
Scientists also speculate that the formation of Ceres is inextricably linked to the formation of the asteroid belt, which was home to a planet about the size of the Earth in the early days of the solar system.
It's just that this planet was later torn apart by the dual forces of Jupiter and the sun, so there was an asteroid belt, and Ceres was the most massive of them, and after years of changes, it finally slowly formed the current Ceres.
A few days later, the 'Emperor Hanwu' spacecraft got closer and closer to Ceres, and the scientists and engineers on the spacecraft began to get extremely busy.
Cosmic astroscientists are constantly calculating the orbits of the planets in the solar system, the most important of which are the orbits of Mars and Earth.
This time, if you want to hit Mars with Ceres, it is naturally impossible to hit it accurately if you don't calculate the position of Mars, and as for calculating the position of the Earth, it is to avoid the Earth as much as possible, and even if there is a problem, it will not pose any threat to the Earth.
Ceres is too big, it is not an ordinary celestial body, it has been out of the category of asteroids, if once Ceres will hit the earth, even if there are all kinds of weapons, it is difficult to say that the influence of Ceres on the earth will be completely eliminated.
If you are not careful, you will even destroy everything on the earth, so try to avoid hitting the earth due to mistakes.
By accurately calculating the orbits of Mars and the Earth, scientists can accurately calculate everything, at what angle, at what point in time, at what position it hits, etc., all of which need to be calculated strictly by computers, not indiscriminately.
As for the scientists and engineers on the ship, they are doing the final inspection and evaluation of the ship to ensure that everything on the ship is functioning properly and perfectly, and there will be no problems when it comes to depleting Ceres.
All kinds of probes, satellites, etc. began to spread to Ceres for nothing, and the surrounding void was also full of various monitors, controlling everything.
The control and command center of the 'Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty' spacecraft is here, Wu Renjie and Liao Fanghong, as well as Long Zhankong and Huang Zhibin of the Academy of Astronomical Sciences of the Academy of Galaxy Sciences, and Yang Hongyan and Zhang Jian, the chief designers of the 'Emperor of the Han Dynasty' spacecraft, are also here.
"Can we really consume Ceres?"
Liao Fanghong looked at the huge planet in front of him, it was spherical as a whole, which means that its mass is very large, and you must know that asteroids are all irregular shapes.
The more massive the body in the universe, the more spherical it becomes, all because of the great influence of fluid static equilibrium.
Asteroids have a small mass, so they have different shapes, and there are few spherical shapes, and the mass of Ceres has reached a certain level, and the whole presents a spherical shape.
Liao Fanghong has very rich experience in mining asteroids, and has traveled back and forth to the asteroid belt many times, so it knows very well how huge the mass of this Ceres in front of him is.
In the face of such a huge Ceres, even though he knew that the 'Emperor of Hanwu' spaceship was also very powerful, he still couldn't help but doubt it.
"Ceres is a dwarf planet, the mass is indeed very large, it is not easy to consume it, if you just rely on the power of this spaceship, it is naturally far from enough."
"But in the interstellar universe, the most powerful force is the power of stars, the power of black holes."
"The black hole at the center of the Milky Way has an unparalleled power that dominates the entire galaxy; The Sun, the center of the solar system, is no less powerful, and has the power to dominate everything within the entire solar system. ”
"To consume Ceres, we must rely on the power of the sun."
Long Zhankong looked at the Ceres in front of him, but he was very confident, as a cosmic astronomical scientist, he had calculated countless times, and also used a quantum computer to carry out countless simulation calculations.
With the powerful power of the 'Emperor Hanwu' spacecraft, coupled with the power of the sun, it is enough to consume Ceres, change its trajectory, and finally crash into Mars.
"We are not dragging Ceres stiffly, but using the power of the spacecraft to change the original orbit of Ceres a little bit, so that its new orbit and the orbit of Mars converge, and naturally we can achieve the purpose of consuming Ceres to impact Mars."
"In the end, we have to use the power of the sun, and the power of the spaceship is just an auxiliary power."
Huang Zhibin also nodded and explained, this is actually the same principle as the earth's escape from the solar system in the three-body problem, which is to use a little force to change the orbit of the earth, and finally rely on the power of the sun to realize the movement of celestial bodies.
Of course, this little bit of power is still a very large power for human beings, after all, the mass of a planet is too large, and it is definitely not easy to change its trajectory a little.