Our Orbit
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 6:11 pm
Does our solar system revolve around another star every 24,000 years, that also revolves around the center of our galaxie and are we in an eliptical orbit around that star?
Our system is not in orbit around any other star, only around the center of the Milky Way.dillberg wrote:Does our solar system revolve around another star every 24,000 years, that also revolves around the center of our galaxie and are we in an eliptical orbit around that star?
This is completely inaccurate. The Solar System has a small oscillation above and below the galactic plane that is related to its inclination and perturbations. The period of this oscillation is about 90 million years- we cross the galactic plane 2.5 to 3 times each orbit. And given that there is no well defined galactic plane, that crossing period lasts hundreds of thousands of years (and last occurred a few million years ago).BMAONE23 wrote:We do seem to spend 13,000 or so years above the galactic plane and 13,000 or so below with the crossing (alignment) coming up in 2 years.
We continually cross and recross the galactic plane every 13,000,000 years or so.BMAONE23 wrote:Along the same lines...
Since most everything in space (the universe) seems to "Orbit" something, (the moon orbits the Earth orbits the sun orbits the galaxy) What is responsible for the suns travels through the galactic plane? We do seem to spend 13,000 or so years above the galactic plane and 13,000 or so below with the crossing (alignment) coming up in 2 years. What creates this movement of the solar system if not orbital in nature?
If we continually cross and recross the galactic plane every 13,000 years or so but take 200,000,000 years to orbit the galaxy, the solar motion through the galaxy would be a sine wave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28star%29 wrote:
<<Matese and Whitman have suggested that the supposed [26,000,000 year] extinction periodicity might be caused by the solar system oscillating across the galactic plane of the Milky Way. These oscillations may lead to gravitational disturbances in the Oort cloud with the same proposed consequences as the orbit of "Nemesis". However, the period of oscillation is not well-constrained observationally, and may differ from the needed 26 million years by as much as 40%.
No....It is determined solely by the average density of stars in our neighborhood.Arrgy wrote:
That there are so many different theories as to how often we cross the plane (dark rift) shows that we don't have a clue.