Sunday, February 26, 2006

Fun with Orbits

If you like orbits, you'll find this interesting. Astronomers have discovered a solar system in the process of formation. The thing that is different about this one, though, is that the cloud of gas and dust in the inner system is rotating in the opposite direction than the cloud of gas and dust in the outer system. This would lead to some planets orbiting in one direction, and other planets orbiting in the opposite direction.

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