Recent content by Kometkaj

Hi Dave: Well actually Pioneer 10 IS farther out than Pluto; Is is allmost as far as the Heliospause according to the Pioneer homepage. But you are right: When the Pioneer anomali was detected it wasn't as far our. But objects are also influnced by masses outside of their orbit. Contributed to...

Actually there IS an unaccounted gravitational force somewhere in the outskirts of our solar system. It was first discovered when the orbit of the Pioneer probe was slightly different from what is should have been. It may be due to the mass of the asteroids in the Kuiper belt is larger than...

Yes; Assuming that we can track and monitor an entire orbital revolution, then the apparent diameter of the planet from the stars perspective, should cover 360'/200 = 1,8degrees, if the probability for an alignment that allows us to see an eclipse should be 1:200 or 0,5% Most of the...

I must admit, that i have never seen any observational documentation for the claim I have seen several sources that refer to a common inclination of the stellar orbits with respect to the galactic plane. But whether it is a 20/80 relationship or a more significant number, I am not sure ...

Hi Andre. Well actually it is a well established theory, that there was a type II supernova prior to the creation of the Sun. This is quite normal for starcreations; When heavy stars that usually only lives <1mio years are born, they explode and tricker a secondary wave of starformations in the...

Btw: This is not only the case for planetary formation, but for everything that orbits something. This is also why stars rotate, and why they rotate in the same orientation of the galactic plane. Ever wondered why we can see so many exoplanetary transits, when the chance of seeing an eclipse...

If you were to calculate on a dusty gascloud collapsing, you would decipher it into "multi-particles motion" eg. 1000 elements heading for the same gravity-center. 1. As they close in on the center, density rises and chances of collisions increase. 2. The gascloud also orbits something else...

Try and see it from the photon's point of view: Its entire mass is dependent on it's velocity. If it had a different relative speed, it would also have a different mass, and masses can't really change or appear/diappear. Thus the speed HAS to C, in order to maintain it's mass. Then forget about...

As i recall 3 planets - out of which one was actually a brown dwarf - has been observed directly so far. But we will be able to see them very soon; New techniques to substract the stellar glare from exoplanets observations, promises to make it possible for todays Earth based telescopes to see...