Friday, May 13, 2011

Gravitational Perturbation  

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Apart from our Sun, scientists have found more than 500 planets around the star, a majority of them spin in the same way as their star does. But for everything there will be at least one exception, that is a universal truth. Like that there are some extra solar planets that orbit around their star in a direction which is opposite to what is done by their star.These backward spinning giants are nick-named as "hot Jupiters" as much of them are gassy giants and not "rocky" as our Earth.
Actually scientists are very much weird about these "flipped orbits" as unlike Jupiter these "hot Jupiters" are much closer to the star and the scientists explain the reason for their astonishment. Orbiting in opposite direction and that too so much closer actually violates the basics of star-planet formation. According to astronomical theory big gas planets are formed far away from the star and the Earth like rock planets are born nearer to the star. But at the same time Astronomy itself are giving answers to this question: When the planetary systems contain more than one planet, apart from the star, each planet will have its own gravitational force that eventually will pull the gas giants closer to the star. This phenomenon the scientists named "Gravitational Perturbation".