things that make u go hmm
Objects spinning around the sun in opposite direction
Really makes you hmm.
hmm
I never thought about it
Is there a preferred direction for spinning around the sun? I thought it was random
>engadget.com
I tracked down the ACTUAL scientific paper
There is. The planets formed from the same rotating disc of matter. They all orbit counter-clockwise when you look from "north"
There are two major evolutionary ways in the universe.
Clockwise rotatory ways named as 1-3-1 way is shown on the image brahmanedu.org
Spherical Coordinates of the Present Cosmos :
brahmanedu.org
I can't wrap my head around how a planet can go the opposite way.
Might be a captured object from beyond the solar system.
But shouldn't the gravitational locking should spin it the way around the sun turns ?
We were born just right to witness the discovery of an alien monolith placed in our solar system to kickstart humanities development into a space faring race.
COME AND GET IT AYY LMAO
Aliens.
can't say it doesn't explain it
Why does planets spin and why don't they stop?
aliens
not if it wasn't created as part of our solar system
they do stop, eventually
The Sun slows the rotation of the planets, don't confuse rotation(spin) with orbit(circling the Sun), and eventually they will all become tidally locked.
In a gorillion years.
is this what everyone is losing their shit over?
>That means some other force must have acted upon the object in order to set it on this path.
Probably a small red dwarf just outside the solar system we can't see
It's aliens confirmed, of course it's a big deal.
If there is a red dwarf just outside of the solar system then could it have it's own heated planetary system with aliens? Would explain UFOs despite FTL being impossible
hmm
if its rotational plane is perpendicular to the other planets, how can you say it's rotating "backwards" compared to the other planets?
>Probably a small red dwarf just outside the solar system we can't see
How would such a thing exists and us not knowing about it?
Or how "just" outside are you trying to say?
>Objects spinning around the sun in opposite direction
Doesn't violate keplers laws, so no worries.
thats not the point
hmm
Hmmmm...
Really makes you fart
Couldn't it just be a captured object? Or am I missing something?
Conservation of momentum.
>Probably a small red dwarf just outside the solar system we can't see
>If there is a red dwarf just outside of the solar system
We can see red dwarfs up to 59 THOUSAND light years away.
en.wikipedia.org
How in the fuck would we not notice one right next door?
extrasolar relativistic weapon
we're doomed
VLS
Is c really c?
I just calculated it. That star is approximately 10 times dimmer than our sun. So in order to see it just as bright as the sun, it would have to be 100 times closer. But instead it's more than 1000 times further away. Therefore, it would be ~320 times dimmer than our sun. To put that in perspective it's still brighter than the full moon, but at that distance from the sun it's tangential speed would be incredible. It would be like trying to take a picture of lightning without knowing where the storm is.