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That seems awfully weird. Is that something that things orbiting the sun normally do?
by elihu 5y ago
That seems awfully weird. Is that something that things orbiting the sun normally do?
- perl4ever 5y agoMy intuition is that anything with a really eccentric orbit (10s to 10s of thousands of AU) has more of a chance of passing through many gravitational fields that change its orbit.
- elihu 5y agoI suppose that makes sense... if something is in an orbit that's flattened down until it's only slightly off from being a straight line in and out, then any very slight perturbations could really affect how close it comes to the sun on the next pass. The sun moves too a little bit, due to the pull of the planets. Maybe it's enough to make a difference?