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 Feb 14 2006, 05:19 PM
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Planets Might Orbit Backward around Odd Star
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060213_backards.html A developing star has been found to have two disks of material rotating in opposite directions. The discovery hints at a future solar system with planets going this way and that. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 14 2006, 10:11 PM
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How the hell did THAT happen? It sounds like Superman's Bizarro World.
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Feb 15 2006, 08:41 AM
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Close encounter/collision between two protostars and their orbiting disks. One star captured material from the other's disk. Encounter directions will be random, so (neglecting one disk impeding capture of material from the other) the result will be randomly prograde or retrograde.
I'll be very interested in seeing in the inclination of the 2 disks relative to the star, and wichs disk (inner or outer) is retrograde relative to the star. |
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