Sorry, you misunderstand... The destruction of the planet doesn't matter anymore...it can't occur that way so I'm moving back to alignment...i can worry about the planet being destroyed another time...the alignment still needs to occur with as much symmetry as possible.
That is why i was hoping...
So i can basically only have a system like this where the four other planets are at equal distances on their own orbits and the only "X" alignment i can hope for would be like picture 2?
So the gravitational pull can't rip apart another planet...I guessed that would cause me problems...what about the alignment possibilities? The Earth planet can be destroyed by other means but the alignment is still important...things like how many years it would take to align, the length of...
This is just a basic pic of the system
This is an alignment from above looking down
This is a side view
The basic idea is that the alignment occurs only once...when it occurs it destroys the Earth planet by ripping it apart...It is planned that the gravitational pull from the...
I thought I might have gotten more of a response from my last post but I think it may need to be explained more.
It is a solar system containing a yellow star (sun) at its center and an Earth like planet orbiting it.
There re four more planets orbiting further out that have to be in some...
Imagining a clock...the middle of the face where the hands rotate from represents the sun.
If at 12 and 6 were to planets, could they inhabit the same orbit around the sun without consequence?
I imagine they would not collide as they would be moving at the same rate and in this scenario are...