Model Suggests Unusual Gravitational Point 3.81 Light Years From Earth

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a proposition for a new gravitational point outside of the solar system
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Lagrange points in a nutshell
3:20 This applies to outside of the solar system too
4:20 2 points between the sun and the galaxy
5:20 Could this capture planets?
6:10 So the solar system is 3.81 light years large?
6:50 Fractal orbits
7:25 Still questionable

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[bloeckmoep]

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.

[AstroCatz]

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…

[alphabetsoup]

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

[patrickunderwood]

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

[George-rkts]

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.

[PetraKann]

“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

[jimcurtis]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙂

[czlthmi]

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

[NuisanceMan]

I don't think it WILL redefine the size of the Solar System. If the Solar System extends to 3.81 light years, then other stellar systems, by virtue of their own Lagrange points, will overlap with it. Overlapping stellar systems don't strike me as a particularly useful concept, except perhaps in exceptional cases.

[yokotaashi]

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?

[eleanorchapple]

I always learn something new and wondrous in Anton’s channel. Thank you Anton

[thetinkerist]

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.

[aeligos]

I am wonderful and so are you.
Thank you for sharing such fascinating content with us.
☕

[AKSTEVE]

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

[nunyabiznazz]

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

[antoniomonteiro]

thank for the chapters in the videos - I can now watch your videos again :)

[matthewcasady]

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.

[yomogami]

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

[MyraSeavy]

How are you Anton? Stay well and happy! 😊❤

[vaakdemandante]

I'd me more interested in L4 and L5 for the galaxy-Sun configuration as as Anton said, they are the more stable ones, so there's possibility of vast amount of celestial objects to be located there.

Though it is clear that no large objects are ever located there - the size/mass of objects located in all of those 5 points are a LOT smaller than the mass of the 2 bodies creating those points - by definition it can only work that way.

So there are no planets/brown dwarfs there, though a Jupiter-sized planet would be a possibility. Still, I'd expect a lot of objects the size of Mercury or similar.