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Did A Lost Star Knock The Earth Off Its Orbit? New Theory To Explain Why Our Planet Circles The Sun At An Angle To The Solar Equator

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  • The Earth circles around the solar system at an angle 7 degrees off the solar equator
  • Theory suggests that gravity from errant star travelling near to our solar system pulled the planets out of whack
 

By Damien Gayle

PUBLISHED:09:42 EST, 16 November 2012| UPDATED:11:28 EST, 16 November 2012

It has been a long standing puzzle to astronomers: why is the Earth’s orbit tipped 7 degrees relative to the sun’s equator?

Now a new theory suggests that violent stage of our solar system’s history, an errant young star strayed close and pulled our developing planets out of whack with the sun’s equator.

Konstantin Batygin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggests that our star had a near stellar neighbour at the time Earth formed.

 

Our solar system: All the planets in our system orbit at angles to the sun’s equator. A new theory suggests they may have been pulled out of whack by a nearby stellar neighbour that has long ago left the scene

It is the gravitational of this nearby star on our developing system that explains why the planets don’t orbit neatly around the sun’s equator.

Dr Batygin outlines his theory in a letter published in the journal Nature titled A primordial origin for misalignments between stellar spin axes and planetary orbits.

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    • HereAmI

      Sir Fred Hoyle, the British astronomer who preferred a Steady-State theory to Hubble’s Big Bang, remarked that it was not possible to differentiate between a model of planetary architecture which places the sun in orbit around the earth, and the alternative, in which the earth orbits the sun. The latter is, of course, almost universally believed by hoi polloi, and by most astronomers. This should be quite a shocking revelation to one and all.
      Clearly Hoyle was neither mad nor was he stupid. I believe that such was his eminence in the field, that he was for a time the Astronomer Royal, as was that other illustrious figure, Isaac Newton.
      All the evidence seems to point towards the truth of his idea that the universe is not expanding following on from a Big Bang, but it is in a static condition. The evidence for the mainstream assertion is derived from the Red Shift phenomenon observed by Hubble; however, both he and his primary collaborator very soon distanced themselves from the idea; not so the masses, who find it hard to think for themselves, and therefore invariably follow the consensus viewpoint. This latter proclivity also ensures that, as obedient clones of each other, they will receive as much funding for their various projects as they desire; should they break ranks with the majority, they know that this will be denied them as punishment for their temerity. Thus has it always been. You will remember how few souls had the effrontery to inform the Emperor that he was naked, despite the clear evidence for that fact.
      In a word, then, the earth lies stationary at the centre of the created universe. This is a big idea to swallow, as it has many ramifications, not least of which is the fact that we here on earth are infinitely more important and central to the scheme of things than many would wish you to believe.
      The 7′ tilt of earth’s axis is thrown into doubt if the earth does not have an axis, because it is not spinning. So rather, the sun orbits us at this angle, for reasons which are presently unknown.
      “The world also is firmly established; it shall not be moved”. 1 Chron ch 16, verse 30.

    • -kg-

      Or is it possible that the Sun wobbles on its axis, similar to the Earth? Such a wobble would have no effect on the orbits of the planets, but would explain the orbital differential in relation to the sun’s equator.

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