<p>If one day we have enough technology to push the Earth away a bit further from the sun to reduce global warming, is it true that it will start to distort the orbits of Mars and Venus, giving them a larger eccentricity and finally colliding with sun or each other?</p>

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2016-03-31T10:40:42.853Z
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is purely hypothetical. We do not have, nor can conceivably ever obtain the technology to change the orbit of a planet significantly.
James K
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2016-03-31T16:56:49.860Z
Note to those who voted to migrate: The question has been closed on Worldbuilding (see [my comment](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/39254/what-would-happen-if-we-changed-earths-orbit#comment110576_39254)) to the author for reasons I gave there. Please refrain from migrating What-If questions to Worldbuilding if they aren't actually about worldbuilding. Thanks.
HDE 226868
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2016-03-31T17:24:43.730Z
Relevant meta question: http://meta.astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/296/thought-experiments
Donald.McLean
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2016-04-04T15:05:29.987Z
**To those who have voted to reopen:** this question is not on topic just because it got closed on Worldbuilding. It is not merely off topic here because of its speculative nature. It is not about Astronomy; it is about geoengineering of Earth. Its effects on other planets brush with the field of celestial mechanics, but the engineered nature of the enterprise makes it more like orbital mechanics (space exploration) than Astronomy which is primarily concerned with the observation of the natural processes.
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What would happen if we changed Earth's orbit?
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# What would happen if we changed Earth's orbit?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-03-31)

If one day we have enough technology to push the Earth away a bit further from the sun to reduce global warming, is it true that it will start to distort the orbits of Mars and Venus, giving them a larger eccentricity and finally colliding with sun or each other?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is purely hypothetical. We do not have, nor can conceivably ever obtain the technology to change the orbit of a planet significantly.  
> **username_2**: Note to those who voted to migrate: The question has been closed on Worldbuilding (see [my comment](https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/39254/what-would-happen-if-we-changed-earths-orbit#comment110576_39254)) to the author for reasons I gave there. Please refrain from migrating What-If questions to Worldbuilding if they aren't actually about worldbuilding. Thanks.  
> **username_3**: Relevant meta question: http://meta.astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/296/thought-experiments  
> **username_4**: **To those who have voted to reopen:** this question is not on topic just because it got closed on Worldbuilding. It is not merely off topic here because of its speculative nature. It is not about Astronomy; it is about geoengineering of Earth. Its effects on other planets brush with the field of celestial mechanics, but the engineered nature of the enterprise makes it more like orbital mechanics (space exploration) than Astronomy which is primarily concerned with the observation of the natural processes.  

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