Comments on: Is The Sun Losing Mass? https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: shadowcass https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-6319 Sun, 02 Dec 2018 01:38:21 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-6319 ]]> So don’t take the word of some random flat earther and self appointed science critic. 😉

]]> By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-6311 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:07:26 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-6311 Let’s do some very rough math. 1 metric tonne is 1000 kg, or 103 174 trillion is roughly 200 trillion, or 2 x 1014 (A trillion is 1012). 4.6 billion is about 5 billion, or 5 x 109. So multiplying it all we get about 1027 kilograms lost over the life of the Sun. The Sun has a current mass of 2 x 1030, so taking the fraction we get 0.005, which is nowhere near 120 times its current mass.

]]> By: Rick Badman https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-6310 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 02:45:11 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-6310 If the sun is losing 174 trillion tons of mass annually and it is 6.6 sextillion tons, if the solar system is around 4.6 billions years old, the mass of the sun at the beginning could be 120 times what it is now. That means Mercury shouldn’t exist because it would have fallen into the sun shortly after the formation of the solar system The mass of the sun would have been so great that Venus and Earth would have been in danger of falling into the sun too. Too many people take the word of a scientist on face value and don’t do further investigation of a claim.

]]> By: Tim https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-6233 Sat, 22 Sep 2018 22:18:16 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-6233 It’s all theory’s and guess work.

]]> By: John Anderson https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-6124 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 20:23:59 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-6124 It won’t stay constant. Gravity has an inverse square relationship over distance. So the further we move away, the faster we move away.

]]> By: g barnes https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-5352 Tue, 20 Jun 2017 05:49:12 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-5352 but shouldn’t the sun-earth distance yearly increase be itself accelerating as the gravitational pull decreases with each passing year?

]]> By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-4780 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 06:36:20 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-4780 Any gains from things like comets, etc. is negligible compared to the mass loss.

]]> By: dav https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-4778 Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:52:30 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-4778 Does this response take into account the mass that the Sun GAINS by sweeping up dust, gas, stray comets, etc. in its travels?

]]> By: Sarah Holloway https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-4709 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:21:02 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-4709 All entertaining info and discussion, but we will probably be hit by an asteroid before the Sun changes enough to fry the Earth. I think the statistical chance of the Earth being massively impacted before the next Billion years is likely.

]]> By: mass lost of sun https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-4554 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:13:07 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-4554 The mass lost of the sun in realtime, very fascinating!:
http://www.live-counter.com/sun/

]]> By: Jason tan https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-4497 Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:37:48 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-4497 We only move 1.6cm further away from the sun per year

]]> By: Karl https://briankoberlein.com/2015/12/16/is-the-sun-losing-mass/#comment-3630 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:13:08 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5565#comment-3630 I’ve read that the sun’s power output/luminosity is also (very gradually) increasing over time. So it’s believed that the Earth will become uninhabitable due to the increased solar radiation long before our star actually begins to swell into its red giant phase.

Encouraging, isn’t it?

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