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The orbits of the solar system are not completely circular or flat
The album of our solar system is relatively deformed. What happened? A new study thinks of great (literally).
The orbits of the planets of the solar system are slightly inclined and are more oval than circular, explains.
A new investigation by physicists Garett Brown and Hanno Rein and scientist Renu Malhotra now suggests that at the beginning of his formation, our system may have been “Wrinkled” by a giant object.
In 2017, the Oumuamua asteroid of the Solar System, which originated a reflection of the scientific community about the possible “invasion” of our space for interstellar objects.
The team that coordinated the one published at the end of last year did the math: taking into account the current orbits of the planets of our system, a “linge” enough to put us as we are could have been caused by an object with a mass between 2 to 50 times higher than Jupiter’s.
The best correspondence would be an object with 8 times the mass of this planet, and to approach the current orbit of Mars at a speed of 2.69 kilometers per second.
And the investigators did not stay here: they still did other simulations of potential “invasions” of our solar system. In 2% of cases, one of the planets could even be designed out of the system.
Although the possibilities of this theory happen in fact, they exist: “In other words, We don’t need to look for a needle in a haystack To find an appropriate meeting, ”the authors.
