http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/ Space Mining, Space Settlement, and Space Science! Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.6 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/#comment-28466 Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:03:37 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=885#comment-28466 I learned much from your article, thanks Phil Metzger!

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/#comment-28161 Tue, 06 Oct 2015 07:08:49 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=885#comment-28161 Hi Phil,starting up a social media campaign to get Pluto reinstated as a planet, all support welcome!

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/#comment-27833 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:05:03 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=885#comment-27833 My theory of the formation of planets in the solar system with all the answers to the riddles there websayte: http://WWW.moon-birthday.ru
There’s a book and a movie in the public domain. Successfully explains the appearance of Pluto – a planet with 5 satellites.

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/#comment-27533 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:15:40 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=885#comment-27533 Hi Robert — you’re right. Larry Niven’s description is succinct and perfect!

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/#comment-27222 Sun, 07 Jun 2015 18:37:48 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=885#comment-27222 When it comes to orbital mechancs, nobody has ever explained it better than Larry Niven in The Integral Trees: “East takes you out, out takes you west, west takes you in, in takes you east, port and starboard bring you back.” (where East in this case is the direction of orbital motion)

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/#comment-27220 Sun, 07 Jun 2015 16:58:58 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=885#comment-27220 Robert — thanks. It’s been a long time since grad school and I got the concepts mixed up. The energy goes into potential at the expense of kinetic. v^2/r = alpha/r^2, therefore v=Sqrt(alpha/r) and velocity scales as r^(-1/2). I will amend the article.

]]> http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/planet-tossing-and-the-kuiper-belt/#comment-27178 Thu, 04 Jun 2015 03:52:40 +0000 http://www.philipmetzger.com/blog/?p=885#comment-27178 I think you mistyped a bit. Objects in higher orbits have lower orbital speeds. The moon orbits the earth at a pokey 1km/sec or so.

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