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My hats off to anyone who gets this one.
There is a sphere centered on the sun, (like Sol, our own star, ok?)
the diameter of this sphere is over 200 billion miles across.
What is it? I won't give hints now, but if everyone is stumped, I
can give some.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
My hats off to anyone who gets this one.
There is a sphere centered on the sun, (like Sol, our own star, ok?)
the diameter of this sphere is over 200 billion miles across.
What is it? I won't give hints now, but if everyone is stumped, I
can give some.
The Galactic Fun Zone?

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Originally posted by PBE6
The Galactic Fun Zone?
boy you have to try harder than that! Besides, the galaxy, I have
heard, is a lot bigger than that, would hope the galaxy fun zone
would be too.🙂

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BTW for a small hint, you won't find this in many books, I figured
it out on my own, so good luck!

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Originally posted by sonhouse
BTW for a small hint, you won't find this in many books, I figured
it out on my own, so good luck!
Give us a better hint. What kind of object/concept are you talking about?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
My hats off to anyone who gets this one.
There is a sphere centered on the sun, (like Sol, our own star, ok?)
the diameter of this sphere is over 200 billion miles across.
What is it? I won't give hints now, but if everyone is stumped, I
can give some.
Is this related to the sun's gravitational field?

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Here is one: Its not necessarily matter but it might include matter.

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Originally posted by The Plumber
Is this related to the sun's gravitational field?
getting warm

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Originally posted by sonhouse
getting warm
The Solar system is too small and the Oort Cloud is too far away. 😕

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of course it is a route on what earth travels around sun.


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Originally posted by Jusuh
of course it is a route on what earth travels around sun.


1 Astronomical Unit (AU) = mean distance of Earth from Sun = 92 million miles approximately.

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Originally posted by THUDandBLUNDER
The Solar system is too small and the Oort Cloud is too far away. 😕
yep, but its the largest "feature" in the solar system. I think
most astronomers think the largest feature is the magnetic
field of Jupiter but 200 bill+ dwarfs that for sure.

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Originally posted by Jusuh
of course it is a route on what earth travels around sun.


only off by three orders of magnitude.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
getting warm
Is it the range of radiation emitted by the sun?

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Originally posted by Daemon Sin
Is it the range of radiation emitted by the sun?
The "range" of radiation of the sun extends WAY past that distance.
It(radiation) is said to affect the orbital trajectory of comets in the
Oort cloud, which may extend a trillion miles.
I did a calculation of the energy hitting the earth from Sirius a few
years ago and found it amounted to over 13 MEGAwatts spread out
over the whole surface of the earth. The numbers go like this:
you aim a light meter at Sirius (brightest star in the sky, 8 LY from
earth) and it says we get 9.8E-9 watts per square foot near earth.
For the purpose of calculation, the earth can be considered a
disk, so a disk roughly 8,000 miles in diameter is 64 million square
miles times 0.78 (PI R^2) is about 50 million square miles, times
640 (acres/square mile) times 43,600 (square feet in an acre) and
you come up with about 1.4E15 square feet of collecting area on earth
that would always face Sirius times by 9.8E-9 = 13+ Megawatts.
Of course that is orders of magnitude lower than the power from the
sun (126 w/ft^2 X 1.4E15 square feet= 1.8E17 watts hitting the earth
from the sun, about 150 BILLION times more than from Sirius
but it shows that power goes a long distance. 13 megawatts on the
earth from a distance of 8 Light Years.