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Old 31-05-2010, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Insane Climber View Post
Arhm scuse me but if its orbit is so fast wouldn't the inward spiral be non detectable buy us.
On the contrary, it would be even more noticeable. The faster it moved in its orbit, the closer it'd be to its parent star, the quicker tidal forces would do their job and it'd begin to fall into the star. However, before it even fell into the star's photosphere, the planet would get ripped apart and partially vapourised. What was left of it would form a (very) temporary disk around the star.
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