Hello,
This is my first question post. And i had the idea for a short story to have two Earths rotate around the sun in its same orbit. I have absolutely no idea what kind of (magnetic) traces we leave behind in our orbit around the sun.
Think about a clock comparison, I already checked we rotate counter clockwise around the sun. We are at 9 o'çlock. Earth 2 would be at the other side, 3 o'clock. What would the effects be?
Are we leaving behind any traces like a wake behind us. Think about two boats that continuesly sail in a circle, like the clock comparison. In some way both boats would be effected by the wake from the other one. And at some point, they would devert slightly from their path. Though both captains would take the effort to keep them on the same place.
Question number two and three: Example stated above is when two planets are at two opposite points having the sun inbetween them.
2) What would happen in the same example, where Earth 2 would be placed at 12 o 'clock? Earth 2 would then be "behind" us, since we both rotate counter clockwise around the sun.
3) What would happen in the same example, where Earth 2 would be placed at 6 o 'clock? Earth 2 would then be "in front" of us.
I kinda like the idea as part of an sci-fi story and i think the possibilities to create a cool story from this alone are enormous.
Bye.