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Today we want to bring several distant exoplanets closer to our home but… bringing them near How much Well up to our solar system Let's get started already TRAPPIST-1e is a rocky planet slightly smaller than Earth and lies 41 light-years away light from us Orbiting extremely close to its star which in the case of stars y it's not a problem The TRAPPIST-1 star is smaller dimmer and cooler than our Sun red and much cooler than our Sun It belongs to the category of dwarf stars ultra-cold Excellent The distance between TRAPPIST-1e and its star is roughly 3% of the distance separating us from the Sun Yet it's perfect because it's located at the e habitable zone of that tiny celestial body To determine just how far into our solar system We should send it to TRAPPIST-1e we figured the best thing was for it to be as close as possible to as close to our Sun as possible but at a distance significantly greater than its current orbit At 0.03 astronomical units from our Sun this world would lie entirely within that distance Habitable So we chose a more welcoming spot for TRAPPIST-1e its orb Mercury Mercury is about 0.4 astronomical units from the Sun In that orbit TRAPPIST-1e would be at a distance 13 times greater than that separating it from its star But our Sun is much larger and more incandescent even if it were farther away TRAPPIST-1e would still receive significantly more sunlight than before The surface temperature of this alien planet would reac extreme levels And this climate change wouldn't take years TRAPPIST-1e would quickly become e lake on the planet would evaporate within a few years This would reduce TRAPPIST-1e's habitability score in terms of suitability for life Nevertheless among all the neighbors in the solar system where it resides TRAPPIST-1e is the most promising It shares its space with six other rocky planets but while some are too hot others are too cold This is the only one a place where life could thrive It's a real champion Not only does it lie within the habitable zone but also has an atmosphere solid ground lakes and oceans And top it all off a gravity similar to that of our planet TRAPPIST-1e is undoubtedly the leading candidate perfect for a 2.0 Earth—well not quite Ever since we came up with the idea of placing it in orb With Mercury any hope of turning this planet into our second home vanished completely The only good thing would be that you could see it from Earth—a tiny point in the sky brighter and larger than Mercury Visible to the naked eye without the need for a telescope would seem to be just another star Another positive development is that detecting an exoplanet 2.4 times a planet larger than Mercury in its own orbit would not significantly disrupt the balance e gravitational influence of our solar system It could slightly alter Venus's orbit but that would take Millions of years So yes it will be bad news for TRAPPIST-1e but not for Earthlings Now that you're so close to that exoplanet you can land there or at least on wha It's become uninhabitable because of him but I want to try once more Let's take TRAPPIST-1e and move it closer to Earth's orbit into the asteroid belt I'm referring to the region of space between Mars and Jupiter where millions of asteroids reside that Unlike what the Star Wars saga portrays they do not form a compact mass The average distance between them hear this is about a million kilometers That's right—enormous Yes there's plenty of room for TRAPPIST-1e but the asteroid belt is 2.5 times wider far from the Sun than Earth There TRAPPIST-1e would receive only 16% of the solar light that Earth does we receive Once again bad news for this exoplanet It would lose heat rapidly and would end up transformed into a frozen wasteland with all its water trapped beneath a thick layer of ice it would no longer be a Terra 2.0 but a new Mars Any sign of life on TRAPPIST-1e would vanish unless it was beneath the surface and managed to adapt to such conditions such a sudden climate change And here is where things get interesting for us solar system The idea of a planet nearly as large as Earth invading the asteroid belt was unprecedented would beneficial for humanity At first nothing would change but TRAPPIST-1e would pass millions of times through the sky years extracting asteroids from their orbits and amplifying their gravitational impact until disrupt the orbits of Mars and Earth—possibly even affecting Jupiter's orbit And if that giant planet shifted its orbit the entire solar system would be at risk It's true and even the slightest deviation of the giant gas planet would affect all the inner planets even causing Mercury to crash into the Sun But that would take billions of years years so there's no need to worry for now Clearly TRAPPIST-1e wouldn't fare well None of these orbits would be safe if placed too close to Earth So why don't we try Kepler-442b It's a heavyweight among planets Rocosos It is 30% larger than Earth yet has 2.3 times Earth's mass It's like a planet made of asteroids what scientists call a super-Earth One day as it was calmly orbiting its cold orange dwarf star 1 200 light-years away we decided to teleport to this system But where do we place it In its original system Kepler-442b is the only planet and resides lies within the habitable zone of a K-type star cooler and dimmer than our Sun which is a ype G That's why it has a habitable zone much closer in If we replaced our Sun with one of these around the star Kepler-442 Mercury would lie within the habitable zone while Venus would be just barely outside of her But this isn't about replacing our star it's about positioning Kepler-442b is located 0.5 astronomical units from the Sun—closer to Mercury than to Venus More precisely beyond the habitable zone of the Sun And what does this mean That the conditions on Kepler-442b They are about to heat up On the other hand the gravity of Kepler-442b is stronger tha of TRAPPIST-1e and would cling more tightly to its atmosphere Yes Kepler-442b is a world potentially habitable It is larger than Earth and has significantly more solid surface area But Honestly we'd never travel 1 200 light-years to settle it And now that we're here so close to it The Sun would no longer be a tropical paradise but a scorching hell the oceans would evaporate while its atmosphere would endure But these are bad news because eventually Kepler-442b would become a Super Venus rather than a Super Earth It turns out that everything The vapor from the evaporation of its oceans would cause its atmosphere to grow increasingly dense Surface gravity would allow the atmosphere to remain in place but it would again be extremely dense And Kepler-442b is nearly three times as massive at Venus due to this unstoppable greenhouse effect could become such a plane Worst case scenario You definitely wouldn't want to visit it And maybe you couldn't even if you tried Having a Super A completely new planet in the inner solar system would be catastrophic Initially It wouldn't be noticeable But after a few thousand years the gravity of Kepler-442b would begin to have an effect e orbits of Mercury Venus Mars and Earth even pulling them out of their orbits and causing them to collide with each other Amid that orbital chaos Earth's conditions would also be changing An unstable orbit means an unstable climate And if were on a collision course with Mars Venus or even the very exoplanet Kepler-442b for that would be the end of our planet But all of this would take at least a million years Won't you live to see it enough to witness a planetary collision Then let's raise the stakes and move a planet 5.5 times more massive than Earth OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb This exoplanet is credibly cold and is extraordinarily distant Ogle let's call it that is 21.526 light-years from Earth Ogle orbits its star at 2.6 astronomical units In our system solar would be located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter We don't even know what kind of star orbits this planet because it's too weak and too far away But is it any ype of cold star Since Ogle is an icy world it's colder than anything in our e solar system Its surface temperature is only 50 Kelvin That is at does not exceed minus 223 degrees Celsius Did I feel a chill Since this planet was discovered using the gravitational microlensing method We don't even know how big it is Telescopes like NASA's Kepler discover planets using the transit method observing the light blocked by an exoplanet as it passes across the star's face front of its star The microlensing method is different It measures the a slight bending and magnification of the light from a distant star caused by e planet's gravity as the star passes in front of it Although we don't see the exoplanet technically we know it's there because it affects gravitationally the light from its star And that means Ogle could be either a super-Earth or a mini-Neptune For our experiment let's imagine tha It's vast cold and rocky Now transporting Ogle to our asteroid belt moving it there would entail significant changes for that planet as it would place it within the solar system receive about 16% of the sunlight that Earth receives That's a lot more tha at it received in its original orbit But at least at first this would not be so dramatic Its e surface would remain firmly frozen even as it warmed to about minus 200 degrees Celsius Nevertheless over time and gradually the Sun's energy would begin to warm Ogle Par e surface ice would sublime creating an atmosphere or merging into any that may have already existed originally In any case would it be too cold to colorize it We'd surely send single probes and robotic vehicles to explore its surface Keep in mind that this is not abou a small lightweight planet like Trappist-1e Ogle is 5.5 times more massive than Earth and Certainly much denser exerting an extreme gravitational pull After a few million years the asteroid belt would have disintegrated Millions e rocks would be ejected from their orbits and spiraled inward toward the Sun and some of those asteroids would threaten both Mars and Earth The weather forecas daily forecast predicted clear skies light solar winds and a 70% chance of catastrophic impacts of asteroids At least one of the millions of asteroids that conta It was over a kilometer wide so the situation would soon become catastrophic Eventually after tens of hundreds of millions of years Ogle would destabilize Mars and then Earth's orbit would follow assuming humanity still exists at all could vanish due to a giant asteroid just like the dinosaurs but everything It would fall apart even faster if we placed the epic SuperSaturn in orbit around the Sun We'referring to the majestic J1407b a planet orbiting a Sun-like star 434 light-years from us and it is truly massive—20 times the size of Saturn has rings 200 times wider than those of our own giant planet So f we could place this alien gaseous monster into Earth's orbit These rings would stretch all the way to Mercury In its stellar system this SuperSaturn is en to fifteen times farther from its star than Earth is from the Sun So in our e solar system would place it right between Saturn and Uranus Its stunning rings ey would dominate the sky reflecting so much sunlight that they would be visible from Earth ough to make out their details you'd need a telescope But remember This planet is truly massive—it would attract Saturn and Uranus causing disturbances little by little their orbits That gravitational dance spanning millions of years would destabilize moons It would reshape rings and even place Uranus into a more elliptical orbit The smaller colder bodies in the Kuiper Belt would be threatened while the gravitational force of J1407b would act like a cosmic broom sweeping up an endless pile of debris before hurling it toward the Sun And do you know what that means for Earth Record-breaking levels of impact asteroids Above all send a probe to explore this unusual giant and its beautiful rings would be incredibly complicated Those rings aren't just frozen rocks and millions of fragments as large as mountains orbiting around the The exoplanet travels at thousands of kilometers per hour No spacecraft could survive a direct impact and it's also possible that J1407b has hundreds of moons some even larger than Mercury If one crossed the orbits of Saturn or Uranus would collide with one of them or at the very least cause our rings to shift planets were larger and brighter If this exoplanet were to push even just a little bit further A little more Jupiter and eventually Earth would suffer the consequences Jupiter is the anchor of the planetary orbits in the inner solar system and any alteration to its trajectory would disrupt that balance over hundreds over millions of years Those small changes would accumulate causing Earth's orbit to oscillate And the asteroids would strike us In the worst-case scenario Mercury would be flung into the Sun Imagine our Moon being replaced by any of these exoplanets Terrible Or perhaps horrifying But we'll save that story for another episode of What If The Best Conte