Posted on 01/15/2015 3:45:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
In their studies, the team analyzed the effects of what is called the ‘Kozai mechanism,’ which is related to the gravitational perturbation that a large body exerts on the orbit of another much smaller and further away object. They looked at how the highly eccentric comet 96P/Machholz1 is influenced by Jupiter (it will come near the orbit of Mercury in 2017, but it travels as much as 6 AU at aphelion) and it may “provide the key to explain the puzzling clustering of orbits around argument of perihelion close to 0° recently found for the population of ETNOs,” the team wrote in one of their papers.
They also looked at the dwarf planet discovered last year called 2012 VP113 in the Oort cloud (its closest approach to the Sun is about 80 astronomical units) and how some researchers say it appears its orbit might be influenced by the possible presence of a dark and icy super-Earth, up to ten times larger than our planet.
“This Sedna-like object has the most distant perihelion of any known minor planet and the value of its argument of perihelion is close to 0°,” the team writes in their second paper. “This property appears to be shared by almost all known asteroids with semimajor axis greater than 150 au and perihelion greater than 30 au (the extreme trans-Neptunian objects or ETNOs), and this fact has been interpreted as evidence for the existence of a super-Earth at 250 au. In this scenario, a population of stable asteroids may be shepherded by a distant, undiscovered planet larger than the Earth that keeps the value of their argument of perihelion librating around 0° as a result of the Kozai mechanism.”
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LOL! Adorbs!
You can almost see Heranus
There’s that old hit song by E.T. Presley - “Return to Sedna”
Take two A.U and call me in the morning.
“All One Hour and Twenty-three minutes of it on YouTube!”
I’ve had it on DVD for years.
Uhm... Where is the assteroid belt?
Turn around, together we can determine where to place the next two Planets (or we can just draw arrows to the orbs) either way, I will need a picture to work with.
TT ;^)
Not even a limerick or a little Haiku perhaps? ;^)
“In order to save our civilization we must treplicate with a male of your species.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDgxCa_iDxE
Quix got zotted, much to the chagrin of his many friends here.
Dating pool? It’s more like a cess pool. I think 75% of people out there show the world what poor decision-making skills they have via displaying their precious and “unique” tattoos. It’s sad... frustrating.
Thanks KoRn. John J. Matese's work in this area continues to be relevant.
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LOL! Yeah. Sure. Right. ;)
hey, there.
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