Open AccessLoops in the Sun’s orbit
Author(s) -
Milutin Marjanov
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
theoretical and applied mechanics/theoretical and applied mechanics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.279
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2406-0925
pISSN - 1450-5584
DOI - 10.2298/tam1301127m
Subject(s) - physics , planet , orbit (dynamics) , solar system , rotation (mathematics) , astrophysics , center (category theory) , center of mass (relativistic) , astronomy , classical mechanics , geometry , mathematics , chemistry , energy–momentum relation , engineering , crystallography , aerospace engineering
Besides translation, spin around its axis and rotation around center of the Milky Way, the Sun performs relative motion in the solar system Laplacian plane, also. This motion was anticipated by Newton himself, in his Principia. The form of the Sun’s orbit is substantially different from the other solar system bodies’ orbits. Namely, the Sun moves along the path composed of the chain of large and small loops [1, 2, 6, 9]. This chain is situated within the circular outline with the diameter approximately twice as large as the Sun’s is. Under supposition that the solar system is stable, the Sun is going to move along it, in the same region, for eternity, never reitereiting the same path. It was also shown in this work that velocity and acceleration of the Sun’s center of mass are completely defined by the relative velocities and accelerations of the planets with respect to the Sun