Not exact matches
One by one, Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury are all tossed
out of their orbits as Jupiter swings around our star on a
path that takes it from the outer
solar system to the sun's searing doorstep.
The gravitational pull
of our sun adjusted its sharply curved
path, flinging it back
out of our
solar system at a new angle, never to return again.
Suzanne Smrekar
of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the first author
of the Science paper, says that as we begin to find Earth - like planets in other
solar systems, some
of which may turn
out to be similar to Venus, it's becoming urgent to understand why the planet took such a different
path from the Earth in its evolution.
The
solar field acts over most
of the
solar system, and very slowly produces significant alternation
of the cosmic ray particle
path, bending it
out of the
solar system.