Corkscrew planets spiral between suns

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3021, 2015, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Binary systems are more complicated, but astronomers usually assume that a planet will stay confined to a single plane of motion, tracing a disc either around both its parent stars or just one. Eugene Oks, a theoretical physicist at Auburn University in Alabama, wondered what would happen without that assumption. His model shows that, if people imagine a line connecting the two stars, a planet could trace a corkscrew around that line, traveling back and forth between the stars.