An Exploration Of Planetary Orbital Geometry (part 4)
Many appreciate the sun has an impact on climate but what about the planets? In this article I fashion a tin foil hat and peek at all planetary bodies that knead the sun-dough
In part 2 of this series I took a look at the gas giants and in part 3 I took a look at the inner planets. Today I want to finish this opening move by looking at the summed phase component for all 13 bodies of significance that orbit the sun. If we liken orbital mechanics to the flurry of our fingers and the sun to a ball of bread dough then we can see the action of our tiny digits – in terms of whirling masses - is going to pummel and stretch the elastic medium of whatever the sun actually is (a gaseous plasma or, as some suggest, liquid metallic hydrogen). If the notion of a liquid sun fills you with utter disbelief to the point of stamping on beer mats I recommend you grab an espresso and watch this thought-provoking presentation.
Setting the structure of the sun aside my peculiar summed phase slides reveal how orbital pummelling of the central sun-dough unfolds over time, and we may reasonably assume the sun-dough mixture might respond in some manner (or not as the case may be). Anybody thinking the sun-dough might be too massive to budge even the tiniest of fractions might like to consider the dynamics of the situation whilst wearing the hat of chaos, there being at least two ways to wear this hat (frontward = consider gravitational/mass effects; backward = consider electro/magnetic field effects). With this in mind, let us now ogle the monthly summed phase space for all 13 heavenly bodies over the period 1850 - 2023: