Guest guest Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 I've made progress in my Sirius research and understanding what/how a binary orbital relationship with Sirius might consist of. Two astronomers have both scoffed at a orbital relationship because of the nearby stars of the Alpha Centauri stars at about 4.5 light years. Sirius is 8.6 light years away and a close-to-circular ellipse orbit might be greatly disturbed by these other stars. Sirius and our system seem to have their own orbits at right angles to each other in terms of their orbital planes. Sirius moves mostly in southerly declination, which when combined with our 23-24 degrees inclination seems to come to a possible 90 degree tilt. This takes us away from any close approach to those nearby stars and keeps us and sirius in empty space. However, the rate of movement of Sirius across the star background is nowhere fast enough to support an orbit that would represent our precessional great year. And, such a perpendicular orbit would leave Sirius in the constellation Cancer for a long time, and would then jump it over to Capricorn for a long time. There would be no step-by-step movement through the signs. None of this relates to historical records. An interesting site is http://www.siriusresearchgroup.com/ one of many sites that can be found concerning Sirius. This particular site notes several interesting recent finds about the Sirius relationship. Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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