However it works, the root cause most certainly will be global warming. Man-made global warming, and will require a new tax, the Astronomical Tax.
TORONTO (CP) dateline 2016-08-13. Kathleen Wynne and Rachel Notley, in a joint media statement today, suggested that “since now the consensus on man-made climate change was indeed seen to be extra-terrestrial, we’d all have to tighten our Kuiper Belts” (to snickers, guffaws and back-sapping by the assembled media fauners), “and embrace the certainty that lies ahead by accepting this new Astronomical Tax, which our experts have determined to be so essential for the future of mankind.”
Rachel and Notley didn’t take questions after the media scrum, leaving the adoring press to make up whatever was needed to fit the narrative.
Man, an Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima would be great.
It’s mine! I name it planet Robert
I am wondering how its orbital plane can be 110 degrees from the average plane of the other planets, when, given simple geometry, the largest angle between two planes is 90 degrees. I guess orbital planes must have a handedness imparted to them by the direction of their object’s revolution.
Perhaps capture of Niku from some other solar system by the Sun’s gravity explains its unusual orbit?
The largest angle between two orbital planes is 180 degrees. A satellite orbiting the Earth in an orbital plane angled 110 degrees with respect to the orbit of the moon would have a ground track extending to 70 degrees North and South (it’s a little more complicated due to the Earth’s axial tilt), and would be moving from East to West.
It is assumed that the planets in our solar system all coalesced from the same original nebula, and that they all go in approximately the same orbital plane due to conservation of angular momentum. A planet at 110 degrees to the rest of them has wildly different angular momentum, so much so that it couldn’t have gotten where it is due to encounters with Jupiter. The necessary change in angular momentum would have ripped the planet apart tidally.
Most likely this is a rogue planet, flung out of some other star’s orbit and captured by the sun.
Chris de burge
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma8P4bDtJH8
Planet discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri:
http://www.seeker.com/new-nearby-earth-like-planet-discovered-1970197349.html
It’s orbiting at a distance where it could have liquid water.
However it works, the root cause most certainly will be global warming. Man-made global warming, and will require a new tax, the Astronomical Tax.
TORONTO (CP) dateline 2016-08-13. Kathleen Wynne and Rachel Notley, in a joint media statement today, suggested that “since now the consensus on man-made climate change was indeed seen to be extra-terrestrial, we’d all have to tighten our Kuiper Belts” (to snickers, guffaws and back-sapping by the assembled media fauners), “and embrace the certainty that lies ahead by accepting this new Astronomical Tax, which our experts have determined to be so essential for the future of mankind.”
Rachel and Notley didn’t take questions after the media scrum, leaving the adoring press to make up whatever was needed to fit the narrative.
Man, an Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima would be great.
It’s mine! I name it planet Robert
I am wondering how its orbital plane can be 110 degrees from the average plane of the other planets, when, given simple geometry, the largest angle between two planes is 90 degrees. I guess orbital planes must have a handedness imparted to them by the direction of their object’s revolution.
Perhaps capture of Niku from some other solar system by the Sun’s gravity explains its unusual orbit?
The largest angle between two orbital planes is 180 degrees. A satellite orbiting the Earth in an orbital plane angled 110 degrees with respect to the orbit of the moon would have a ground track extending to 70 degrees North and South (it’s a little more complicated due to the Earth’s axial tilt), and would be moving from East to West.
It is assumed that the planets in our solar system all coalesced from the same original nebula, and that they all go in approximately the same orbital plane due to conservation of angular momentum. A planet at 110 degrees to the rest of them has wildly different angular momentum, so much so that it couldn’t have gotten where it is due to encounters with Jupiter. The necessary change in angular momentum would have ripped the planet apart tidally.
Most likely this is a rogue planet, flung out of some other star’s orbit and captured by the sun.
Ed, can Wynne tax it???
Can I have a continent?