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The orbital speed of such a planet would be extreme, something like 300 km/s. This also means other planets (like Venus or Mars are to Earth) would be visible
by pfdietz 2y ago
The orbital speed of such a planet would be extreme, something like 300 km/s.
This also means other planets (like Venus or Mars are to Earth) would be visible in the sky as perceptible disks.
- perihelions 2y agoIt's the same scale as the orbits of the large moons of Jupiter (roughly 0.003 au–0.013 au). If you were standing on one of those, the others would appear as very large disks—some of them larger than the Earth moon. (Jupiter itself would be much larger still).