Posted on 12/11/2020 9:23:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
Invisible structures generated by gravitational interactions in the Solar System have created a "space superhighway" network, astronomers have discovered.
These channels enable the fast travel of objects through space, and could be harnessed for our own space exploration purposes, as well as the study of comets and asteroids.
By applying analyses to both observational and simulation data, a team of researchers led by Nataša Todorović of Belgrade Astronomical Observatory in Serbia observed that these superhighways consist of a series of connected arches inside these invisible structures, called space manifolds - and each planet generates its own manifolds, together creating what the researchers have called "a true celestial autobahn".
This network can transport objects from Jupiter to Neptune in a matter of decades, rather than the much longer timescales, on the order of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, normally found in the Solar System.
Finding hidden structures in space isn't always easy, but looking at the way things move around can provide helpful clues. In particular, comets and asteroids.
There are several groups of rocky bodies at different distances from the Sun. There's the Jupiter-family comets (JFCs), those with orbits of less than 20 years, that don't go farther than Jupiter's orbital paths.
Centaurs are icy chunks of rocks that hang out between Jupiter and Neptune. And the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are those in the far reaches of the Solar System, with orbits larger than that of Neptune.
To model the pathways connecting these zones, as TNOs transition through the Centaur category and end up as JFCs, timescales can range from 10,000 to a billion years. But a recent paper identified an orbital gateway connected to Jupiter that seems much quicker, governing the paths of JFCs and Centaurs.
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Thanks for the info.
Well great. Can they DOJ sometime about this election
Anything has to be faster than I-35.
Haha, nothing worth the effort. When you can travel at warp speed, beyond the speed of light, then it will be worth my time. You really miss sinking one?
Again? I already used my √66 joke.
Silly. Where are the gravitational forces once you get say one light year beyond our sun? Sorry UFO believers but there is no such thing as “superhighways” connecting the stars. Worm hole tunnels stretching across the universe are equal fantasy. People who claim that space/time can tilt or wrinkle to bring “people and civilizations nearer and together” are also delusional. In the post religion, neo pagan era, humans, perhaps the only species who’s brain has a capacity if not a need for mystical thinking, will concoct all sorts of soothing fairy tales. Either you beleieve Einstein’s theories of relativity or you believe in UFOs. You can believe in both. The biological or pysical entity can “visit” earth from multiple light years distant.
Oops again!
Meant that first “Oops” for your total solar eclipse thread!
OK; scientists just discovered that certain pathways in our solar system speed up the travel of objects. Got it.
How does that affect the calculations of “near miss” asteroids? Probably not in a good way.
Agree. Humans will never travel to other worlds. Not beyond Mars. Never. Next sun to our own is 1 light year away. 4.5 trillion miles away. Traveling at 670,000,000 miles an hour it would take one year to get there. Never!
Hell I’ve been cruising those highways since the early 70s
WOW I’d point out the SO MANY WAYS you are wrong but it would take too long AND I know nothing would change your mind.
Just wow.
You need to read some books written after 1930 :)
I’m still waiting for the flying car.
Cool, get me the heck out of here!
That's nice, you've discovered our highways just in time to watch us put one right through you puny worthless little planet.
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