During all of this orbital dancing, Brunini says, the planets exchange a great deal of angular momentum. In particular, the very close approaches of Uranus to Saturn causes them to exchange momentum, which, over time, changes their axial tilts. Now, this process is relatively fast, happening over a few hundred thousand years, but it is much slower than a single humongous impact tipping over a planet. The slower pace of the process that Brunini proposes means that as the planets slowly tilt, their satellite systems can actually follow the change in tilt. (All of these planets are fatter at the equator than at the poles, a geometry that tends to make their satellites' orbits flatten out into their equatorial planes over time.)

ok i see he has addressed that problem


ill say

shrug i dunno

ill wait for the brainy ones to nut it out

in 5 years time he'll be either right(ish) or wrong(ish)

id be wary of using simulations to `prove' anything tho

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Surely if you are going to start a conspiracy theory it is best to start with something that might have a grain of truth or reality in it. To start with the preposterous and go downhill from there is just stupid. steve(primus) (Avatar)