Starship Asterisk*

You'd think at that orbital distance, the parent star would either wick matter from WASP-43b, or cause the orbit to decay until the planet broke apart, or given time, both. I'm no astrophysicist, though..... :' )

Wouldn't the tsunami have taken over two hours to circle the sun? My math skills are nowhere near the level of most that post here, but the sun's circumference is over 4 million km. If the tsunami travelled at one million km/hr, it would theoretically meet itself on the opposite side in a little ove...