Sentences with phrase «tilted orbits»

Previous research suggested that Planet Nine would possess a highly tilted orbit compared with the relatively thin, flat zone in which the eight official planets circle the sun.

Then we started finding some that were misaligned — planets with tilted orbits or planets going around their star in the opposite direction from its spin, in what we call a retrograde orbit.

The latest observations add yet another head - scratcher: giant gas planets that circle their stars on wildly tilted orbits or go around the wrong way altogether.

Some of these ended up on tilted orbits in the distant Kuiper belt, beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Some meticulous sleuthing by Matt Hedman, now at the University of Idaho, and his colleagues revealed that an impact of cometary debris within the inner rings in 1983 likely forced all the ring particles in the impact region into tilted orbits; these orbits precessed like a top, the inner ones precessing faster than the outer ones.

The moon's tilted orbit intersects our orbit around the sun only twice in each revolution at points called nodes.

It is the first known object with a relatively circular but highly tilted orbit beyond Neptune and Pluto.

It could have been a freak, but soon, more «hot Jupiters» turned up in planet searches, and they were joined by other oddities: planets in elongated and highly tilted orbits, even planets orbiting their stars «backward» — counter to the star's rotation.

Planets around other stars have been found with wildly tilted orbits, or «obliquities».

Then all of a sudden we found some tilted orbits, and then we found one planet going backward around its star.

Cameron and colleagues recently studied 27 exoplanets and found that one - third had highly tilted orbits, including at least four that orbited backward.

The most distant of Saturn's 34 known satellites, Phoebe swoops around the planet in a tilted orbit, opposite to the direction of Saturn's spin.

(Previous studies have identified six distant solar systems that include both a warm Jupiter and a large companion planet in a highly tilted orbit, the researchers note.)

Researchers used software to simulate the planetary motions within a two - planet system: one being a Jupiter - sized planet (depicted in the artist's concept above) orbiting its parent star at about the same distance Earth orbits the sun, and the other a large planet in a highly tilted orbit that was slightly larger.

Scattered Kuiper Belt Objects have very eccentric and tilted orbits that carry them from around 3.3 billion miles from the sun to almost 100 billion miles out.