Rebirth: Fight For Life

   Chapter 802 A new discovery that will turn the solar system upside down

   "How long?"

   "If it's calculated as they reply immediately after receiving the message, there are still 2 minutes and 31 seconds."

   After waiting for almost an hour, the result is finally coming. Liu Liangmu nodded and asked again, "Is there any result from Flint Aerospace?"

   "Not yet, they are just like us, lacking more necessary information and... wait, eh?" The commander stared at the screen before he finished speaking.

   Liu Liangmu hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

   "They're starting to adjust the track... no, they should have started adjusting the track 39 minutes ago!"

   Liu Liangmu's heart was relieved, which at least showed that the Flint Space City was safe and sound and had mobility.

  So, before they received the information from Xinghai, they started to correct the deviated course.

   As long as there is no problem!

   "But... the adjustment of the route is a bit strange!" The commander looked at the new route that gradually appeared on the screen, his face was grim, "Why is it getting more and more biased?"

   Yanaggi raised his heart again and looked at the screen carefully.

   Sure enough, although the spot of light representing the Flint Space City started to move horizontally, it went further away from the course.

   This is not a good sign!

   "How long?"

   "83 seconds!"

   Seeing that the route of the Flint Space City was getting more and more deviated, the control hall gradually became more depressed and quiet.

   Everyone is looking forward to the arrival of the reply message.

  HSDA has built the deep space exploration network antenna around the world, maintaining a stable power, waiting for the electromagnetic waves from the Flint Space City to reach the earth.

   It also includes communication antennas built at the Tiangong Space Station and the Moon Palace Base.

   In just over an hour, the flight deviation incident of Flint Space City has been submitted to the HSDA Council, which is a top priority.

  Otherwise, Liu Liangmu would not have come here in a hurry.

   What happened in Flint Space City?

   The countdown on the screen jumped to 0, and the communication channel was still silent.

   The commander said: "They further changed the route more than a minute in advance. We calculated the distance and signal return time according to the original data, so there will be a little delay."

   Liu Liangmu nodded and said nothing, now he can only wait!

   Seeing that the route of the Flint Space City on the screen has deviated a lot, everyone in the hall knows what this means.

   If it is a space activity in the Earth-Moon system, it can already be judged that the mission has failed.

   What's more, after so long of acceleration, the speed of Flint Space City is not comparable to any spacecraft in the Earth-Moon system.

   The deviation on the screen, the actual scale near Jupiter, how many thousands of kilometers?

In the middle of   , you can easily put down a globe.

   At this moment, a voice came from the control hall.

   "Xinghai, this is Flint Space City."

   In the hall, Liu Liangmu's fists clenched unconsciously loosened, and there was a cheer from the others.

The voice is not over yet: "We are very safe, thank you for your concern. Also, we have discovered an undiscovered star near the route. We have just modified the route and want to use its gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate again. This new star It was named Good Hope by the discoverer, and we will send its basic data back later. In addition, Flint Space City will also do some close-up observations as it passes by."

  The voice ended, and the commander was already very excited: "Is the data receiving?"

   "Receiving!"

   Yanaggi asked curiously, "A new star?"

"This is a new discovery!" said the commander, "Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, and its gravitational force is amazing. Humans have discovered 79 moons of Jupiter, but this is not necessarily the final conclusion. Now, flint space A new satellite was discovered over there!"

"Moreover, it must be more cost-effective to allow them to consume extra fuel to change the course and use the gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate. Therefore, the size of this new satellite will not be small! Good Hope, which is a tribute to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in the Age of Voyages. It's an allusion. Human's first deep space voyage found a new star not far from the door, which is a good sign!"

   "It's just a little strange, does Jupiter still have a big moon that hasn't been discovered yet? The ones discovered recently are just little guys with a diameter of one or two kilometers..."

   He said so much in one breath, and his excitement also infected Liu Liangmu.

   Liu Liangmu smiled: "Tiangong and Yuegong should also receive good news, right? Now that we have new discoveries, we can make the telescopes move."

   "That's for sure!" The commander couldn't wait to look at the data he had just received, then froze, "What is this? Its orbit..."

   Liu Liangmu didn't see the doorway for a while and asked him, "What's wrong?"

   "Not a moon of Jupiter? This mass, this orbit... This is unscientific... FUCK!"

   The commander, who forgot to pay attention to civilized language in a hurry, could not explain it to Liu Liangmu, and immediately ordered: "Quick, let the sky survey module, FAST and other telescopes move, and now we have accurate position data!"

   After almost a moment, the telescopes located on the surface and in space began to adjust their angles and attitudes, aiming at a void outside Jupiter.

   The commander arranged a call before trying to calm down and taking a deep breath.

   Liu Liangmu felt that his mood fluctuated too much today, so he hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?"

The commander pondered for a while, organized the language, and then said to Liu Liangmu: "More than ten years ago, because of the discovery of Sedna and Eris, Pluto was considered a dwarf planet, and the nine planets in the solar system became eight. But later, We also found several asteroids of the same size outside the Kuiper Belt. Moreover, their orbits are very strange, and they seem to be influenced by some very strange large gravitational source, converging at the perihelion of their orbits."

   "Therefore, some people think that there is still one undiscovered planet in the solar system, or even at least two. This possible planet is temporarily called planetX, but its orbit is speculated to be outside Neptune!"

The commander pointed to the data from the Flint Space City on the screen in front of him and said: "But Academician Gu said that the strange changes in the orbits of those asteroids are most likely due to this newly discovered star of good hope. And, it's much more than that. !"

"This orbital data...it's amazing! Its perihelion is actually inserted between Jupiter and Saturn! Moreover, its orbit has a very large angle with the ecliptic plane of the sun, which looks like..." the commander said strangely, "like It is a wandering star that was just captured by the sun, and its mass is more than three times that of the earth!"

   "What will be the impact?" Liu Liangmu barely digested the information and asked a key question.

"Influence?" The commander paused, as if thinking and calming his emotions, and finally said, "More data remains to be seen. But if the calculations at Flint Space City are correct, this big guy has just gravitationally influenced by the sun over the past tens to hundreds of thousands of years."

"And if it is really captured by the sun, it will have a huge disturbance to the gravitational environment of the entire solar system. The orbital anomalies of the asteroids in the Kuiper Belt are just the beginning, and the impact it will bring is too great. This is Something that will turn the solar system upside down! Now, it is so close to Jupiter that if it is affected by Jupiter and eventually hits Jupiter or one of Jupiter's moons, it will be a devastating event!"

"It's not a small thing like a meteorite or a comet, it's more than 3 times the mass of the Earth! Even if it doesn't hit Jupiter or one of Jupiter's moons, eventually the orbits of the stars will change due to its gravitational pull. You know, if What would happen if the earth was a little closer to the sun or a little further away?"

   Liu Liangmu was taken aback, what is there to ask?

   He couldn't help but blurt out: "What kind of good hope is this?"

   The commander smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know what Academician Gu thinks... Of course, if that day does come, I don't know how many thousands of years it will be..."

   (end of this chapter)