Re: PLANETS ORBIT THE SUN TO CONSERVE TOTAL ENERGY

From: Michael Moroney (moroney_at_world.std.spaamtrap.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:43:34 +0000 (UTC)

gravitymechanic2@cs.com (GRAVITYMECHANIC2) writes:

>If a planet (say earth) moved away from the sun
>its potential energy would decrease as L increased.
                            ^^^^^^^^
YM increase.

>No mechanism exists for this to occur rapidly.
>So it could not happen. The magnitudes of kinetic
>and potential energies of planets and moons
>travelling in orbital motion are equal and any
>increase or decrease of orbital distance L results
>in an equal change in magnitude of both.This is
>the only value of L where no change of total energy
>will occur if the value of L changes. At any other
>distance L, an increase of kinetic energy will be at a
>different rate than potential energy decreases.

Explain elliptical orbits then. An orbiting body gains
kinetic energy and loses potential energy, then gains
potential energy and loses kinetic energy as it moves in
an elliptical orbit.

Idjit. 

-- 
-Mike