Astronomers have discovered a second exoplanet orbiting its star backwards, a day after the first “retrograde” exoplanet was spotted.
Using the Japanese Subaru telescope to observe planet HAT-P-7b, two teams, one led by Joshua Winn of MIT and another led by Norio Narita at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, have discovered the second exoplanet.
“It is funny that the two good cases for Really misaligned orbits, even retrOgrade orbits, have come at around the same Time.
“We don’t know if it’s a slOwly rotating star that we’re seeing edge-on, or a really rapidly rotating star that we’re seeing pole-on. It could be like the solar system — but reversed, oR it could be going pole over pole. Either way it’s cool,” Winn said.
However, both the teams disagree on the tilt of the exoplanet’s orbit.
While the US team’s measurements indicate that the planet either runs backwards along the star’s equator, at a tilt of about 180degrees, or it orbits the star’s poles, at a 90degrees tilt, the Japanese team claimed that the orbit is inclined by 227degrees with respect to the star’s equator.
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What’s the significance, or meaning, of ROTOR? Words in the article starting with, or containing, capitol letters that shouldn’t have them.
Hidden message or me just being a little bit too suspicious??
ROOR!
Aha!! Article about ‘backwards’ planet……rotor spelt same forwards and backwards!!
ROTOR? Random capitalisation of letters makes my head hurt
Interesting story. What\’s the significance of planets with “Backwards” orbits? Aren\’t they likely to be planets captured by the stars gravity some time after its local solar system was formed?
so you are going to do something backwards that will apear to be forwards or make someone go backwards altho’ he will think its forwards… uhm Iam lost
A palindromic planet? How exquisite
be afraid…be quite afraid. !emmuL
Why has everything been backwards lately??? :X
Thank you for involving us blog-readers in your little event.
Also, why should planets have a right way round and a wrong way round? Surely they can orbit either way? Is that really dumb of me? Probably.
Didn’t Mecury also go ‘retrograde’ earlier this year?
Hmmm, very interesting… although ROTOR was a little too blatant for my liking
Published in Hindu? Hm …
Maybe it would have been ineresting when they would have added why it is of importance to know what side it is going. Ofcourse .. backwards can be forward … it’s just a matter of focus.
Here it does matter though .. left right back or forward (especially when driving my car) so maybe it is not all without importance up there as well .. I’d say .. it is of importance up there ofcourse as well … but good and bad .. matter of focus .. life or death .. matter of focus .. meteorite hits earth .. just a matter of focus (what we think about that). As Hawkings says .. we do not matter .. at all .. and many have said that before already. Weird that it matters up there all of a sudden so much .. those movements and such of objects .. huh?
Hmmm, Rotor… like the Enigma machine?
Perhaps ROTOR is meant to stand for something….
Return Of The Original …. well you guys can figure the last one out (if you think it’s worth looking into
I have an idea but still haven’t got a clue
Peace People!
is it just that ROTOR is the same forwards and BACKWARDS? (like my name- Anna)
Could it be Derrens take on the Sator Square?
ROTOR ONERO TENET ORENO ROTOR
VERY loose translation:
round – fill up – hold – wine (lovely little Tuscany number!) – round
Maybe a wine party with the next round on Derren…???
Personally, I’m now more worried about the single quotes being around the word ‘discovered’ rather than the word ‘backwards’ :p
ROTOR is an Enigma Machine it’s been ‘hidden’ in another of his posts http://derrenbrownart.com/blog/2009/08/randy-ford-amazing-realist-painter/, maybe more.