Newly Discovered Planet Defies Astronomers' Understanding of Orbital Dynamics
Scientists have discovered a planet that according to current understanding of orbital dynamics, should not exist. The planet is known as a "hot Jupiter", a giant gaseous planet orbiting the star Wasp-18 about 330 light years away from Earth. It is so close to the star that it completes a full orbit in less than an Earth day.
A planet that close, however, should be consumed by its parent star in less than 1 million years. Researchers at Keele University in England believe the star Wasp-18 to be 1 billion years old. Since stars and the planets around them are tought to form at the same time, the planet Wasp-18b should have been reduced to nothing but ashes ages ago.
Coel Hellier, an astrophysicist at Keele University, said:
"This planet should spiral inwards on such a short time scale that the likelihood of seeing it is very low.
Douglas Hamilton, an astronomer at the University of Maryland, said:
That's a paradox. It's like going to the scene of the crime and not finding the weapon. Something's happened, but a key piece of evidence is missing."
The research was published in the journal Nature.
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Mathematical Breakthrough
It is now mathematical proven that the decelerating force that affected the Pioneer probes and the accelerating force that had caused many Fly-by anomalies:
1.) Both affect the Earth (and the planets) as well, - and with full force.
2.) Automatically equalize each other (when affecting the planets).
3.) This explains the cause of the WASP-18b mystery and all the probes anomalies as well.
4.) Wasp will be stable, it will not approach the mother star, not at all.
More > www.science27.com/english/the_pioneer_anomaly.html
Update.......
New calculations shows that WASP-18b probably not will be stable in its present orbit, but will be thrown away with from the star, with a velocity 3 times higher than the velocity astronomers today believe it “should” approach the star.
This certainly will be a big chock, and something we should be able to confirm within 1 to 2 years.
The idea that also planets are affected of the same accelerating force that space probes (by fly by) support this new theory and make it also possible to understand the cause of the 4 following mysteries:
1.)Why gas-planets can be found very closed to starts ( with their atmosphere intact)
2.)Why huge planets can be found more as 15 billion km. from their mother stars.
3.)How Jupiter’s was created (longer away from the Sun) and what brought it closer to the Sun.
4.)How water came to earth.
Introduction
http://www.science27.com/english/the_pioneer_anomaly.html
Updates:
http://www.science27.com/english/Culcu3.htm
UPDATE
The conclusion in my previous post was wrong.
It’s not enough only to consider the possible force that can be pass by, - based on the angel velocity as a result of a astronomic bodies rotation (centrifugal force) affecting the planet (WASP-18b).
It’s also necessary calculating the possible energy requirement and compare that to the (rotation) energy available due to the stars rotation..
This shows that even though if enough energy fast “could” be transmitted to Wasp-18b, it’s simply not available.
Wasp-18b will therefore approach the star, and will not only be affected by the tidal effect (expected 2.8 s. per year) but will probably also be effected by too weak rotation energy (+ 2 s per year) Total 4.8 s. per year.
However Wasp-18b should have been dismissed for several hundred million years ago. How could it “hide it self” from the tidal force so long time?
The answer seems to be “written in the stars”.
By comparing with other solar systems we can easy understand the logic. (The site is now updated and much better now) >
http://www.science27.com/english/SolarSystems.htm
Sorry for the confusion…
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