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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Other Science -- Mapping Every Object In Our Solar System

Real science 
is complicated 
with many 
unanswered 
questions.

Government bureaucrat 
climate junk science 
is simple, and confident,
designed for simpletons: 
CO2 controls 
the temperature 
of our planet and 
CO2 levels 
can be predicted 
for 50 to 100 years 
into the future. 

A lot of people who 
should know better ... 
are paid to believe that.

Never mind that in 
earth's 4.5 billion year 
history, only a few decades 
had a simultaneous rise 
of CO2 and the global 
average temperature
 ( from 1975 to 2020, excluding 
a flat trend from 2003 to mid-2015 ).


Now lets look at 
the big picture
 -- our solar system -- 
more complicated 
than what we learned 
in elementary school !

Biologist Eleanor Lutz 
mapped every known 
object in Earth’s 
solar system that was
 >10km in diameter. 

Asteroids, comets, 
planets, moons and 
small bodies of rock, 
metals, minerals and ice 
are continually moving 
as they orbit the sun. 

Our solar system 
is a surprisingly 
crowded place, 
unlike the simple 
diagrams we were
shown in elementary 
school.

Thr visualization below 
combines five different 
data sets from NASA

Lutz mapped the orbits
of over 18,000 asteroids 
in the solar system:
-- 10,000 at least 
10km in diameter, 
--  8,000 of unknown size.

The chart below shows 
each asteroid’s position 
on New Year’s Eve 1999:



When plotting the objects, 
Lutz observed the 
solar system is not 
arranged in linear 
distances. 

It is logarithmic, 
with more objects 
close to the sun. 

The gravitational pull 
of the sun makes 
the majority of objects 
closer to the sun.

Sir Isaac Newton said 
heavier objects produce 
a bigger gravitational pull 
than lighter ones. 

The sun is 
the largest object 
in our solar system, 
so it has the strongest 
gravitational pull.

The sun is continually 
pulling in the planets.

But the planets
don’t fall into the sun 
because they are
moving sideways 
at the same time 
( see moving chart below ).

Without that 
sideways 
motion, 
the objects 
would fall 
to the center.

And without the pull 
toward the center, 
objects would go 
flying off in a 
straight line.

This is why the farther 
you travel through 
the solar system, 
the bigger the distance
between objects, and 
the fewer the number
of objects.


The Top Ten Non-Planets 
in the Solar System: