Planet Nine antics led to sun's odd tilt

• Autores: Rebecca Boyle
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3083, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A jealous Planet Nine may have shoved its siblings for attention. If a massive ninth planet exists in our solar system, it might explain why the planets are out of line with the sun. The eight major planets still circle the sun in the original plane of their birth. The sun rotates on its own axis, but surprisingly, that spin is tilted: the axis lies at an angle of 6 degrees relative to a line perpendicularto the plane of the planets