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Honest question: Can’t the oddity of planet orbits also be explained by a sun in motion causing the orbits to be a little dragged shape? The direction of drag
by nashashmi 5y ago
Honest question:
Can’t the oddity of planet orbits also be explained by a sun in motion causing the orbits to be a little dragged shape? The direction of drag is probably the ghost planet 9?
- Majromax 5y agoDragged through what? It's not like the interstellar medium has friction. In addition, our entire solar system condensed out of the same primordial soup, with the same sort of motion about the galaxy. Just as our sun is in motion about the galaxy, the planets are in essentially the same motion.
- fsckboy 5y agoyou're asking a good question, that I'm not really qualified to answer, but in short I think no, that's not the explanation. what you're talking about is a general relativistic phenomenon: just as it takes a few minutes for the sun's light to reach earth, it takes an equal amount of time for the sun's gravity to get here, and by then the sun has moved on. However, I don't think that is responsible for these orbits.