The strongest miner in the universe

Chapter 42 The Grave of the Comet (1000 recommendations plus updates)

Gao Jiuding looked at the surrounding void, forget about the stars, there is only one star in the solar system, and the others are too far away from Gao Jiuding, so he absolutely can't pay attention to them now.

"Light, light, light, is it difficult to find a ray of light in the darkness? It shouldn't be difficult, so you still have to be patient!"

Gao Jiuding is not under pressure now, he has plenty of spirit stones, so he also has plenty of time, he believes that as long as he is patient, he will always find something.

"In the void, remove the starlight, remove the sunlight, and what remains is the nearby formless light!" After studying for a long time, Gao Jiuding became more and more experienced.

If these disturbances are removed, it shouldn't be too difficult to find the nearby formless light.

"Huh? There seemed to be a little light over there just now, right? Why did it disappear in the blink of an eye?" Gao Jiuding rubbed his eyes. There were a few stars in the area directly in front of him, how could it disappear in the blink of an eye? up?

"Ah! It appeared again. Judging by the brightness, it is comparable to starlight. Isn't it a star in the distant starry sky?"

Looking at the three starlights, Gao Jiuding felt very strange. He had seen these three stars several times. Because of their strong brightness, he always thought they were stars, but they disappeared just now. What's going on?

"Disappeared again? In such a short time, it is impossible for a huge star to cover its light!" Gao Jiuding looked at the starry sky and felt very painful.

In the starry sky, the sense of distance is very weak. The stars that are one billion light years away from him and the stars that are [-] million light years away look almost the same, and it is impossible to tell which is farther away.

"By the way, I brought a laser rangefinder this time. How far is the distance? Can't you just test it?"

Unintentionally, Gao Jiuding suddenly saw a new piece of equipment he added.

The principle of the laser rangefinder is very simple. It is to emit a beam of light to illuminate the object seen. When the light changes, you will know how far the object is from the spacecraft.

Since the starlight can be seen, there must be no obstruction in the middle, so the laser rangefinder will work.

Gao Jiuding started to get busy. The spaceship uses a large laser rangefinder, but its working principle is the same as that of a small laser rangefinder, except that the beam it emits is stronger.

The laser rangefinder makes full use of the laser to measure the distance of the ranging target. When the laser rangefinder is measuring the distance, it will emit a very thin beam of laser light to the measuring target.

At this time, the laser rangefinder will have a photoelectric element to receive the laser beam reflected by the measurement target material, and then a timer to measure the round-trip time of the laser beam to calculate the distance.

The speed of light is 30 kilometers per second, if it takes ten seconds to return, then the distance during the period is 300 million divided by two.

Lock on the target, launch the laser beam, and after constant testing, it is easy to get the reflected beam.

"A full minute?"

Gao Jiuding calculated the distance a little, and found that the three shiny objects were at least 900 million kilometers away from his current location.

Gao Jiuding touched his chin. The maximum jumping distance of a crocodile-class mining ship is five astronomical units, which is more than 7 million kilometers. 900 million kilometers is really not far away, just one jump is enough.

However, which side to jump to, this needs to be studied carefully!
Of course, if there is no space jump, the crocodile-class mining ship can fly at full speed, and it only takes a few hours to fly there.

However, time is an opportunity, and time is a treasure. Now that Gao Jiuding has enough spirit stones, how could he waste time in the void?
The most important thing is that Gao Jiuding will never be able to wander around in the future, so it is also very important to find safe jump coordinates.

"Hey, the experience this time is very precious!" Gao Jiuding looked at the three stars that sometimes brighten and sometimes not bright, and felt that he had found a way to quickly determine the safe coordinates.

Since the laser rangefinder can perform meritorious service, it means that the place where the laser beam passed just now is all void, and there is nothing blocking the laser beam.

In this way, on this line, they are actually safe jump coordinates.

"You'll know if it's ok if you try it." Although he was sure that there was nothing on this line, Gao Jiuding still wanted to make sure.

Therefore, the laser rangefinder began to work non-stop. This time, the laser beam was not scanning the three bright stars, but their surroundings.

Based on Gao Jiuding's experience, there must be many asteroids around these three stars, and the range will not be too wide!

Sure enough, after several hours of testing, the laser rangefinder really found a few asteroids.

This shows that there is an asteroid belt in that void, but except for the three asteroids that can emit light, the other asteroids are all hidden in the darkness.

"Those three are definitely not stars!" After confirming a lot of safe coordinates, Gao Jiuding said with some doubts.

These three luminous bodies are still in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. How could there be stars here?
"What kind of treasure can emit light? Could it be a strange object of the light system?" Now that the safe coordinates are determined, Gao Jiuding is not in a hurry to jump over, he intends to study and understand in the past.

However, Gao Jiuding searched a lot of information and observed the three luminous bodies many times, but did not get more information.

"I can only jump to the vicinity to have a look!" Gao Jiuding looked at the other two asteroids outside, and they had almost been mined at this time.

Luck seems to have run out. One asteroid only produced some materials, which was black iron ore. The other asteroid was better, but it only yielded a few hundred thousand yuan of spiritual stones.

At this time, the harvest of several 10 yuan of spirit stones was completely out of Gao Jiuding's eyes. Therefore, after cleaning up, Gao Jiuding immediately set the coordinates and started the space jump.

"Ten, nine, eight, seven" Gao Jiuding felt in a trance for a while, and when he came back to his senses, time and space had already changed.

Gathering his mind, Gao Jiuding looked ahead, and there was a red light instead of starlight!
"Where are the three stars?" Gao Jiuding looked at the scene in front of him in astonishment, shouldn't it be a burning fireball?How did it become a pitch-black stone here?What about the firelight?

Gao Jiuding stared blankly for a while, his heart became cold, where is his baby?Those who can shine by themselves in the starry sky must be treasures!
But why didn't the light shine when he got close?
Gao Jiuding couldn't accept it, but he had to accept it, because the three asteroids in front of him started to shine again.

Some asteroids surround three glowing asteroids, forming three asteroid families!
"Is it reflected light? Can the surrounding asteroids block this reflected light?" After seeing the surrounding situation clearly, Gao Jiuding smiled wryly. The asteroid was actually reflected sunlight, just like the moon.

Three pieces of asteroids form three strange constellations, among which three relatively large asteroids can reflect light, and only then will there be three glowing stars!
"These shouldn't be asteroids, they look like meteorites!" Gao Jiuding said thoughtfully.

An asteroid is different from a meteorite. It is called an asteroid in outer space. If it falls on a planet, it rubs against the air and burns, and what remains after burning is called a meteorite.

And these small celestial bodies looked like they had been burned, so Gao Jiuding thought of meteorites.

Thinking of the burning meteorite, Gao Jiuding searched for some information again. This time he did not log in to Tiandao.com, but checked some astronomical knowledge he had collected.

"Sure enough!" After consulting a large amount of information, Gao Jiuding has been able to confirm that this is a comet grave, and the comet here is in a dormant state. Since there is a dormant state, it will be active, and this depends entirely on Due to the irradiation of sunlight and the gravitational force of the planets near the comet.

Comets are among the smallest celestial bodies in the solar system, usually several kilometers in diameter, and made of rock and ice.

During the close approach to the sun, part of the comet's ice turns into gas, and then becomes a comet tail under the action of the solar wind.

A long time ago, a team of astronomers discovered a "comet grave" in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. To their surprise, many comets in the grave, after being silent for thousands of years, even Comes back to life after millions of years.

In the past 10 years, those astronomers have discovered 12 active comets in the asteroid belt, and the resurrection of these comets has prompted astronomers to study them.

The results of the study show that these comets wake up after getting closer to the sun.

Astronomers believe that other dormant comets in the asteroid belt may also be revived by Jupiter's gravitational influence.

Imagine all these asteroids orbiting the sun forever, with no signs of activity of their own, and we've discovered that some of them, not just "dead" rocks, but dormant comets, may one day come back to life.

And this kind of resurrection can easily happen, such as the comet here, under the huge gravity of Jupiter, the shape of the orbit of the comet will change, shortening the shortest distance between them and the sun.

They need only a small amount of energy from the sun to rise from their graves.

Looking at the huge comet that flickers on and off, Gao Jiuding burst out laughing!
After countless years of wandering in the starry sky, useless things, whether they are burning or colliding, should be thrown away at this time, right?

"Thousand-year black iron is the remnant of the meteorite after burning!" At this time, Gao Jiuding was already looking at the comet, and his eyes began to glow.

"It's an iron meteorite, it's probably black iron ore. As for whether it's 1000 years old, it must be more than [-] years. It's a little underestimated." Gao Jiuding controlled the spaceship, not Stop close to the comet grave.

Any comet here flew here after a lot of hard work, and when they got here, they had no power, so they stopped, and when they absorbed enough heat from the sun, they would continue to fly .

(End of this chapter)