Can a rotating space settlement in the main asteroid belt  be put in the orbit around sun?
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Artificial intelligence robot construction would help.
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yes comets have orbits
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The planet's rotation would have to reverse for this to occur. So, no.
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Chances are, yes.\n\n90% of all solar systems are not in a circle so they can not support life.  Of the 10% that are left what are the odds that another planet is moving around a sun where it's not to hot or too cold. Even in our own little solar system there is only one.\n\nSo, if there is life elsewhere, we will never meet them.
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The answer is yes! Most definateley! Being so close to the sun and not rotating on an axis makes for a huge temperature differential between the "light" and "dark" sides of the planet. This, through convection alone, makes for all kinds of geological activity. One must keep in mind that the conditions on that planet are far different from those on our own.
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The Sun does rotate/turn on an axis by itself, but it also rotates around a huge black hole in the center of our galaxy, and it takes a very, very, VERY long time to complete one rotation.\n\nIt rotates around the black hole with similar principles to that of earth revolving around the sun, and yes, eventually it will be swallowed by the black hole.
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I found what you may be looking for at the website below.  Here it is...\n\nFirst it should be known that the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical, not perfectly circular, so the Earth-Sun distance is changing as we speak just from the Earth traveling in its orbit around the Sun.  \n\nIs the orbit itself changing? Well, there are some long-period oscillations, but those are very small, and don't imply that we're systematically moving towards or away from the Sun. \n\nThere is an effect which is making us move very slowly away from the Sun. That is the tidal interaction between the Sun and the Earth. This slows down the rotation of the Sun, and pushes the Earth farther away from the Sun. You can read more about tides, as they relate to the Earth-Moon system. The principle for the Sun-Earth system should be the same. But how big of an effect is this? It turns out that the yearly increase in the distance between the Earth and the Sun from this effect is only about one micrometer (a millionth of a meter, or a ten thousandth of a centimeter). So this is a *very* tiny effect. \n\nThere is another effect which is also small, but somewhat bigger than the tidal effect. The Sun is powered by nuclear fusion, which means the Sun is continuously transforming a small part of its mass into energy. As the mass of the Sun goes down, our orbit gets proportionally bigger. However, over the entire main sequence lifetime of the Sun (about 10 billion years), the Sun will only lose about 0.1% of its mass, which means that the Earth should move out by just ~150,000 km (small compared to the total Earth-Sun distance of ~150,000,000 km). If we assume that the Sun's rate of nuclear fusion today is the same as the average rate over those 10 billion years (a bold assumption, but it should give us a rough idea of the answer), then we're moving away from the Sun at the rate of ~1.5 cm (less than an inch) a year. I probably don't even need to mention that this is so small that we don't have to worry about freezing.\n\n:)\nPeace!
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you can achieve this with centrifugal force. it is called an orbit. the moon is very close to this point it reappears in nearly the same spot about 25 hours later!
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Probably not. The Solar system is a system in balance. The Sun's gravity keeps the orbits of the planets stable. Gravitational attraction between the planets also effects their orbits, exerting the same force as the Moon exerts on the Earth's oceans. The gas giants, especially Jupiter can\ncreate "tides" that can tear a smaller planet to pieces, over time. There once was a "theory" that the asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter, consists of pieces of a planet called, I believe, Vulcan. If Mars WASN'T there, the\nearth would probably be located farther out from the Sun.\nVulcan might not have broken up, and would be orbiting a little closer to the Sun, but not as close as Mars. Bottom line: Earth, outside the "comfort zone" would probably be TOO COLD to sustain life.\n\nMoral of the story? Things are the way they are for a reason.
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My opinion is that we would have to change course of an asteroid headed for Earth.  That means that we would have to detect it years in advance.  With enough notice, we could build a Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) system.  Actually we would have to build several and attach them to the asteroid and start pushing.   They would need to be refueled, so we have to make several visits.   If successful, a project like this would be a real boon to the space program, the economy, and scientific knowlege.
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Yes, the Sun revolves around it's own axis, just like the Earth.  It spins around every 27 days.  It just doesn't ORBIT anything.\n\nedit: actually, it orbits the galaxy.  Takes a few hundred million years.
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no, cassini will stay in orbit.\n\nhttp://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm
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The Sun, its pull is making the planets in this system orbit.
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Not yet, but we are taking the first step, which is to identify and track as many near Earth asteroids as possible. After all, you cannot deflect an asteroid unless you know it is there.
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Yup, it's orbital period is the same as its rotational period due to tidal forces. \n\nAs it orbits the Earth it spins on it's axis, it takes the same amount of time to make one rotation as it does one orbit so it looks like it's not spinning at all from down here.
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Possibly, but i believe venus is a better candidate.  The higher gravity of venus (very earthlike) would allow it to sustain an atmosphere like ours if we can solve 2 other problems...more solar radiation, and a retrograde day that is months long.\n\nThe L.O.V.E. project (Life On Venus Enhancement) I made this up when i was a kid:  solution 1 - put lightweight, but very large reflectors into orbit around venus, on the day side they will block light in a 24 hour pattern, on the night side they will provide sunlight in the same pattern.\n\nsolution 2 - release into orbit around venus a cloud of particles to reduce the solar radiation and also use the reflectors/shades described above.\n\nAs the temperatures approach earthlike conditions, introduce water (capture a comet probably, or change it's orbit subtly to get it to venus.)\n\nIt's possible there is substantial water on venus tied up in some chemical situation or another, we don't know enough about it.\n\nand btw, for the other answers claiming mars is too hot, um, no?
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All space garbage should be recycled and composted into an ecosystem. Thats the complicated set of chemistry questions that goes wtih that particular problem.\n\nUsing large enough diameters and centripetal force we can generate strong enough and stable enough pseudo\ngravity to compensate for that problem. A chemical problem with a civil engineering fix.