Posted By: jopipe [Send E-Mail]
Date: Wednesday, 24-Sep-2014 21:08:28

In Response To: 1 in 4 Americans Don't Know Earth Orbits the Sun. Yes, Really (Susoni)
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I am pretty sure Bill Nye is not a scientist. He is an actor that plays a scientist. I thought I would provide a video on how our solar system really works. The author of the video states, This is a non-conventional view of our solar system that is different from the standard 'flat' diagrams. I believe this video represents the way our solar system works...

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Notes on this video

The Milky Way

- The Milky Way itself travels through space at appr. 600 km/s

- The image used for texturing the Milky Way is NOT a picture of the Milky Way. There are no pictures of the outside of the Milky Way.

- There could either be a black hole or a central sun in the center of the Milky Way. I went with the texture image and made it shine.

- A complete revolution around the galaxy takes 226 million years

- Do not confuse the Galactic Plane with the Galactic Equator: the Sun never "crosses" the Galactic Equator because the Sun is always on the Galactic Equator, by definition.

Precession cycle

- One precession cycle takes 25,920 years

- Since one revolution takes 226 mln years, this would mean that there are appr. 8692 precessional cycles in one revolution. In this animation there are only 60.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4V-ooITrws