No it's the well studied and confirmable science of astronomy.vision-master wrote:It this model of our solar system BS?
Orderly circles? They travel in ellipses, predictable though imperfect circular orbits. This is well studied.vision-master wrote:Do the Planets really circle around the Sun in a nice orderly plane?
No the star we call the sun and planets are moving with the other stars in a branch of the the larger star cluster we call the milky way.vision-master wrote:Does the Sun really just sit static in the Milky Way?
More specifically elliptical orbits were confirmed hundreds of years ago by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) using the highly accurate volumes of data collected by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) and the foundation for collecting that data was laid by Nikolaus Copernicus (1473-1543).Beery1 wrote:We've known for decades that this is not the case.
In my opinion the moderators should delete this thread for lack of brain function and draining relevance from peakoil.com
Beery1 wrote:dissident wrote:vision-master wrote:You are not going to get any planetary system around binary star systems...
That's weird, because I just read of just such a planet having been found:
http://www.space.com/12963-tatooine-pla ... r-16b.html
vision-master wrote:Do the Planets really circle around the Sun in a nice orderly plane?
Does the Sun really just sit static in the Milky Way?
AgentR11 wrote:
Circle? No.
Plane? No.
Orderly? Only vaguely.
Ok. So where did you get this un-model of our solar system with which you decided to throw a rant party for?
vision-master wrote:So you are lacking in brain function?
vision-master wrote:Remember - this thread is Open Topic Discussion
Post all non-peak oil news here. The Open Forum is for other topics that may be of interest or benefit to our members.
vision-master wrote:Crackpot?
dissident wrote:Nothing says it is a stable planetary system.
Eventually this Jupiter sized object will be ejected. They have observed such ejections too.
This little blurb is full of Star Wars references and very few facts
such as how old is this binary star system?
Also, good luck finding any planets that are not the single gas giant this binary has in orbit.
Beery1 wrote:Nothing says it isn't either.
When? How exactly would they witness such an ejection? How would they confirm it?
I dunno.
So? I hate to burst your bubble, but finding any extra-solar planet much smaller than Jupiter is virtually impossible with our current technology. And don't try to deflect the discussion away from the fact that you claimed that planets couldn't orbit a binary star.
In short, I call bullshit. How about you try posting on subjects you know something about?
dissident wrote:If you tried to add even a small mass planet to the Kepler-16 system it would be totally unstable. The very existence of a pseudo-stable orbit for the gas giant implies the absence of other planets in the system.
dissident wrote:You are not going to get any planetary system around binary star systems.
basketballjones wrote:the scientists who are in the 'what constitutes' a planet camp are probably just a bit green that they didn't discover this planet
It's larger than pluto which has been classified a planet for 70+ years.
Astronomers have obtained an important first look at the dwarf planet Makemake - finding it has no atmosphere.
One of five such dwarfs in our Solar System including former planet Pluto, Makemake had until now eluded study.
But in April 2011, it passed between the Earth and a distant star, and astronomers used seven telescopes to study how the star's light was changed.
A report in Nature outlines how they unpicked Makemake's size, lack of atmosphere, and even its density.
Few battles in the astronomy community are as fierce as the one surrounding the demotion of the planet Pluto from planet status in 2006 to one of what the International Astronomical Union then dubbed "dwarf planets".
Pluto shares the category with four other little worlds: Ceres, Haumea, Eris and Makemake.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Return to Environment, Weather & Climate
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 253 guests