things that make u go hmm
Objects spinning around the sun in opposite direction
Jason Miller
Jonathan Diaz
Really makes you hmm.
Chase Clark
hmm
Mason Hughes
I never thought about it
Is there a preferred direction for spinning around the sun? I thought it was random
Joseph Adams
>engadget.com
Tyler Cook
I tracked down the ACTUAL scientific paper
Joshua Powell
There is. The planets formed from the same rotating disc of matter. They all orbit counter-clockwise when you look from "north"
Jordan Nelson
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
Jonathan Jenkins
I can't wrap my head around how a planet can go the opposite way.
Juan Gonzalez
Might be a captured object from beyond the solar system.
Nathaniel Baker
But shouldn't the gravitational locking should spin it the way around the sun turns ?
Jack Williams
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.
Owen Reyes
COME AND GET IT AYY LMAO
Hunter Gutierrez
Aliens.
Blake Rogers
can't say it doesn't explain it
Brody Price
Why does planets spin and why don't they stop?
Aiden Howard
aliens
Asher Richardson
not if it wasn't created as part of our solar system
Thomas Bennett
they do stop, eventually
Jaxon Bell
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.
Henry Smith
is this what everyone is losing their shit over?
Wyatt Diaz
>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
Levi Collins
It's aliens confirmed, of course it's a big deal.
Brandon Gutierrez
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
Ryder Harris
hmm
Bentley Stewart
if its rotational plane is perpendicular to the other planets, how can you say it's rotating "backwards" compared to the other planets?
Isaac Hill
>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?
Jordan Hall
>Objects spinning around the sun in opposite direction
Doesn't violate keplers laws, so no worries.
Jackson Brooks
thats not the point
Alexander Hall
hmm
David Fisher
Hmmmm...
Mason Nguyen
Really makes you fart
Logan Hernandez
Couldn't it just be a captured object? Or am I missing something?
Conservation of momentum.
Anthony Ward
>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?
Landon Powell
extrasolar relativistic weapon
we're doomed
Chase Bailey
VLS
Is c really c?
Ryan Ross
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.