Name: James
Status: other
Age: 30s
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 1999 - 2000
Question:
I believe that the distance from the next nearest star
has our star in orbit around it, where it is in orbit around the galactic
disk. Now, looking at past geological records, the exact time period
between mass extinctions is not exact. I believe this is due to the fact
that our entrance into the debris field of the galactic disk, is
irregular and that time period being irregular the result of our sun
actually being in orbit around the next nearest star. When it approaches
the galactic disk as we do on it's approach we accellerate towards the
more massive galactic disk, and when our orbit around it has us moving
away from the galactic disk as it approaches our entrance into the debris
field is more appearantly chaotic, and the source of the meteorites is
there. I'm asking a scientist, do you think that the nearest star is
massive enough to keep our star in orbit?
Replies:
Of course. Gravitational fields decrease as 1/r^2, so they are felt all
the way out to infinity. Absent interference from other "nearby" stars,
the two stars inevitably orbit about each other.
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