RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 13, 2016 at 4:49 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2016 at 4:54 pm by dyresand.)
(September 13, 2016 at 11:02 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: We're nearly four times closer to Alpha centauri than to El Sol. So why hasn't that closer star pulled us out of orbit?
Because... alpha centauri.. is light years away and our sun is the closet object to earth...
To put it like so the sun our sun has a gravitational pull on earth.
![[Image: orbital_forces.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=spaceplace.nasa.gov%2Freview%2Fdr-marc-solar-system%2Forbital_forces.jpg)
This is where the earth would have to be to orbit Alpha Centauri A or B
![[Image: Alpha_Centauri_HZ.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.hpcf.upr.edu%2F~abel%2Fphl%2FAlpha_Centauri_HZ.jpg)
And where not even.. that close
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