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Showing posts with label orbits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orbits. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Jupiter has discovered two new Trojan


Asteroids are dark or glowing stone with a matt, non-reflective surface. And those that are ahead of Jupiter is much larger that behind.

"Jupiter and Saturn now in peace, in stable orbits. But just have a very rough. And we think that these meteorites are orbiting Jupiter millions and even billions of years - at a time when the solar system was formed only "- said Tommy Graves, a scientist from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, in Arizona.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The orbits of the planets


Why all planets occupy the same orbital plane around? The best guess is that all astronomical move in the same orbital plane because they were born of one and the same flat disk of matter.

Theories suggest that the solar system was originally a huge mass of rotating gas and dust, which was perhaps initially spherical. At some point in this process of condensation and becoming more pronounced rotation,