Model Suggests Unusual Gravitational Point 3.81 Light Years From Earth

Basically, sun’s gravitational pull may be able to capture incoming objects from as far as 3.81 light years away, including interstellar comets and even rogue planets… And in reality there are comets occasionally coming from the interstellar space 🧐fascinating…

If one takes other nearby star systems into consideration, it turns from lagrange points to lagrange orbits, ever shifting, ever changing. Stuff that once got ejected from a star system will most certainly get handed from system to system. Never truly get captured but never totally by itself.

Then these points exist for every star in the galaxy… and every galaxy in a galactic cluster… and so on. Mind blown again.

Over that kind of distance (Light Years) the “lagrange” point gravitationally lags behind a couple of years, so if your’re looking, adjust for double that. The light also takes a couple of years to get back to you.

The Rubin Observatory is going to blow so many minds. If you're not following that project, the time to follow it is now.

Once we had five planets, and thought we understood our solar system. Now, with better mathematical and numerical abilities, and vastly improved observations, we know more than ever before how much more we have to.learn. To science is human Thank you. Anton.

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“There are five special points where a small mass can orbit in a constant pattern with two larger masses. The Lagrange Points are positions where the gravitational pull of two large masses precisely equals the centripetal force required for a small object to move with them.” The five Lagrange points exist in the same relative positions around all major bodies in our Solar System, where one body orbits a more massive body. So, there are Lagrange points in the Earth-Sun system, the Mars-Sun system, the Jupiter-Sun system etc

I guess one should never say never, but these points strike me as too far away from the Sun to be stable over the entire history of the solar system. I believe our models indicate stars probably come closer than this to our solar system every few hundreds of thousands of years. That's a lot of encounters over the 4 and 1/2 + billion year history of the solar system.

Amazing. I've always wondered how they determine points in space that are less affected by gravity, Thank you very much anton

Seems like if this L1 point exists in theory, then theoretically we should be able to predict the L1 (and other lagrange points) for all the nearby stars that are big enough to exert influence and therefore predict the effect they might have on our own solar L1. This would probably limit the orbits of anything around that point, but perhaps the lagrange points of other stars are more isolated and capable of hosting smaller stars or planets in them?

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Rogue planets brings to mind the 1950's tale When Worlds Collide -- always look forward to hearing from you Anton

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A brown dwarf will be cool, now scientists know where to point

Thank you Anton for always being here with an interesting tidbit of information for when I get off work....

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Didn’t ZZ Top have a song about these gravitational zones? 🤣

thanks for an intriguing topic anton looking forward to updates when they occur