Sunday, September 19, 2010

Did Jupiter and Saturn play Pinball with poor Uranus ??

A new study conducted by the alessendaro morbidelli and team of the cote d' azur observatory in france found that uranus,one Of the smallest planet in solar system Is been batted back and forth by the huge celestial bodies ,dominated by planet gaints jupiter and saturn.

Study suggests That poor uranus was batted badly by jupiter and Saturn before being shifted to present location. Huge planets played a pinball game with it over a 100,000 years.

Jupiter and saturn moved out of their initial orbits in the early solar system,5 million years ago scattering all small objects ,asteroids whatever comes in their way.
Mean while uranus crossed saturn's path ,which could have been bounced towards jupiter and then back to saturn . This process  repeated for three times until uranus reached its present spot.

In an alternate scenario, Jupiter and Saturn moved to their orbits over 5 million years by simply flinging away space rocks, but this would have visibly scarred the asteroid belt .
"The evolution of the giant planets has been more violent than we thought," Morbidelli says on this occasion. Source:New Scientist Reports.

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