On Feb 27, 12:23 pm, "Timo A. Nieminen"
wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2007, PD wrote:
On Feb 25, 9:24 am, " wrote:
My knowlege of physics and engineering is very limited, but I'm hoping
my questions will be of enough interest
to you that I get a considered reply. I'm working (as a hobby) with
this 3D Graphics/Sci-Fi concept of a manmade Torus object on a
planetary scale, call it "Toron."
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4. Any circular orbit will either lie in the same plane as the Moon,
or will intersect the plane of the Moon's orbit.
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5. There is also the small matter of finding enough materials to make
the ring.
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It's an interesting
exercise to decide what continent on Earth would have to disappear to
supply the materials for this ring.

Moon - ring. One problem solves another!


Worked for Saturn! Let's start there! Job is half done already!
Now, if we can only get all those pieces of rock to stick together....